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106th Congress Document
 SENATE
 2d Session 106-15
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 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

 Revised to April 27, 2000


 
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 November 19, 1999.--Ordered to be printed

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 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
62-878 CC WASHINGTON : 2000

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 COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION

 MITCH McCONNELL, Kentucky, Chairman

JESSE HELMS, North Carolina CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut
TED STEVENS, Alaska ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia
JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii
THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN, New York
RICK SANTORUM, Pennsylvania DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California
DON NICKLES, Oklahoma ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey
TRENT LOTT, Mississippi CHARLES E. SCHUMER, New York
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas

 Tamara S. Somerville, Staff Director

 G. Hunter Bates, Chief Counsel

 Kennie L. Gill, Democratic Staff Director and Chief Counsel

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 [Excerpt from the Congressional Record, Nov. 19, 1999, p. 
S14929 (daily ed.)] 

 Ms. Collins. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that 
the Committee on Rules and Administration be directed to 
prepare a revised edition of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
and that such standing rules be printed as a Senate document.
 I further ask unanimous consent that beyond the usual 
number, 2,500 additional copies of this document be printed for 
the use of the Committee on Rules and Administration.
 The Presiding Officer. Without objection, it is so ordered.

 (ii) 
 C O N T E N T S

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 Rule Page


 I. Appointment of a Senator to the Chair............................................................. 1
 II. Presentation of credentials and questions of privilege............................................ 1
 III. Oaths............................................................................................. 3
 IV. Commencement of daily sessions.................................................................... 3
 V. Suspension and amendment of the rules............................................................. 4
 VI. Quorum--absent Senators may be sent for........................................................... 4
 VII. Morning business.................................................................................. 5
 VIII. Order of business................................................................................. 6
 IX. Messages.......................................................................................... 6
 X. Special orders.................................................................................... 7
 XI. Papers--withdrawal, printing, reading of, and reference........................................... 7
 XII. Voting procedure.................................................................................. 8
 XIII. Reconsideration................................................................................... 8
 XIV. Bills, joint resolutions, resolutions, and preambles thereto...................................... 9
 XV. Amendments and motions............................................................................ 10
 XVI. Appropriations and amendments to general appropriations bills..................................... 11
 XVII. Reference to committees; motions to discharge; reports of committees; and hearings available...... 12
XVIII. Business continued from session to session........................................................ 13
 XIX. Debate............................................................................................ 13
 XX. Questions of order................................................................................ 14
 XXI. Session with closed doors......................................................................... 15
 XXII. Precedence of motions............................................................................. 15
XXIII. Privilege of the floor............................................................................ 17
 XXIV. Appointment of committees......................................................................... 18
 XXV. Standing committees............................................................................... 18
 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry............................................................ 18
 Appropriations.................................................................................. 19
 Armed Services.................................................................................. 19
 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs............................................................. 19
 Budget.......................................................................................... 20
 Commerce, Science, and Transportation........................................................... 20
 Energy and Natural Resources.................................................................... 21
 Environment and Public Works.................................................................... 21
 Finance......................................................................................... 22
 Foreign Relations............................................................................... 22
 Governmental Affairs............................................................................ 23
 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.......................................................... 24
 Judiciary....................................................................................... 24
 Rules and Administration........................................................................ 25
 Small Business.................................................................................. 26
 Veterans' Affairs............................................................................... 26
 Number of members............................................................................... 26
 Limitations and exceptions in respect to committee membership................................... 27
 XXVI. Committee procedure............................................................................... 29
XXVII. Committee staff................................................................................... 37
XXVIII Conference committees; reports; open meetings..................................................... 37
 .
 XXIX. Executive sessions................................................................................ 38
 XXX. Executive session--proceedings on treaties........................................................ 39
 XXXI. Executive session--proceedings on nominations..................................................... 40
XXXII. The President furnished with copies of records of executive sessions.............................. 41
XXXIII Senate Chamber--Senate wing of the Capitol........................................................ 41
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XXXIV. Public financial disclosure....................................................................... 42
 XXXV. Gifts............................................................................................. 43
XXXVI. Outside earned income............................................................................. 49
XXXVII Conflict of interest.............................................................................. 49
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XXXVII Prohibition of unofficial office accounts......................................................... 52
 I.
XXXIX. Foreign travel.................................................................................... 53
 XL. Franking privilege and radio and television studios............................................... 54
 XLI. Political fund activity; definitions.............................................................. 55
 XLII. Employment practices.............................................................................. 57
XLIII. Representation by Members......................................................................... 57
 Index............................................................................................. 58



 
 STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

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[Changes to Senate rules since the last general revision in 
1979 are indicated by footnotes.
[The 1979 general revision of the rules was accomplished by the 
adoption of S. Res. 274 on Nov. 14, 1979, a resolution 
submitted by Mr. Robert C. Byrd for himself and Mr. Baker; the 
preparation of the proposed revision was pursuant to the 
adoption of S. Res. 156 on May 10, 1976, a resolution by Mr. 
Robert C. Byrd; the general revision of the rules set forth in 
S. Res. 274 was somewhat altered in form by the adoption of S. 
Res. 389 on Mar. 25, 1980, to consolidate and renumber certain 
standing rules of the Senate.
[For the origin of various changes in Senate procedure between 
1884 and 1979, as set forth in rules changes, adopted 
resolutions and Legislative Reorganization Acts, see the table 
on p. XVI of Riddick's Senate Procedure,1992 edition.]
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 RULE I


 appointment of a senator to the chair


 1. In the absence of the Vice President, the Senate shall 
choose a President pro tempore, who shall hold the office and 
execute the duties thereof during the pleasure of the Senate 
and until another is elected or his term of office as a Senator 
expires.
 2. In the absence of the Vice President, and pending the 
election of a President pro tempore, the Acting President pro 
tempore or the Secretary of the Senate, or in his absence the 
Assistant Secretary, shall perform the duties of the Chair.
 3. The President pro tempore shall have the right to name 
in open Senate or, if absent, in writing, a Senator to perform 
the duties of the Chair, including the signing of duly enrolled 
bills and joint resolutions but such substitution shall not 
extend beyond an adjournment, except by unanimous consent; and 
the Senator so named shall have the right to name in open 
session, or, if absent, in writing, a Senator to perform the 
duties of the Chair, but not to extend beyond an adjournment, 
except by unanimous consent.

 RULE II


 presentation of credentials and questions of privilege


 1. The presentation of the credentials of Senators elect or 
of Senators designate and other questions of privilege shall 
always be in order, except during the reading and correction of 
the Journal, while a question of order or a motion to adjourn 
is pending, or while the Senate is voting or ascertaining the 
presence of a quorum; and all questions and motions arising or 
made upon the presentation of such credentials shall be 
proceeded with until disposed of.
 2. The Secretary shall keep a record of the certificates of 
election and certificates of appointment of Senators by 
entering in a well-bound book kept for that purpose the date of 
the election or appointment, the name of the person elected or 
appointed, the date of the certificate, the name of the 
governor and the secretary of state signing and counter-signing 
the same, and the State from which such Senator is elected or 
appointed.
 3. The Secretary of the Senate shall send copies of the 
following recommended forms to the governor and secretary of 
state of each State wherein an election is about to take place 
or an appointment is to be made so that they may use such forms 
if they see fit.

 THE RECOMMENDED FORMS FOR CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION AND CERTIFICATE OF 
 APPOINTMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS \1\:
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 \1\ All year designations within the following certificates were 
changed from 19 to 20 by S. Res. 299, 106-2, Apr. 27, 2000.
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 ``certificate of election for six-year term


``To the President of the Senate of the United States:
 ``This is to certify that on the ____ day of ____, 
20______, A____ B____ was duly chosen by the qualified electors 
of the State of ____ a Senator from said State to represent 
said State in the Senate of the United States for the term of 
six years, beginning on the 3d day of January, 20____.
 ``Witness: His excellency our governor ____, and our seal 
hereto affixed at ______ this ____ day of ____, in the year of 
our Lord 20____.
 ``By the governor:
 ``C____ D____,
 ``Governor.
``E____ F____,
 ``Secretary of State.''

 ``certificate of election for unexpired term


``To the President of the Senate of the United States:
 ``This is to certify that on the ____ day of ____, 20____, 
A____ B____was duly chosen by the qualified electors of the 
State of ____ a Senator for the unexpired term ending at noon 
on the 3d day of January, 20____, to fill the vacancy in the 
representation from said State in the Senate of the United 
States caused by the ____ of C____ D____.
 ``Witness: His excellency our governor ____, and our seal 
hereto affixed at ______ this ____ day of ____, in the year of 
our Lord 20____.
 ``By the governor:
 ``E____ F____,
 ``Governor.
``G____ H____,
 ``Secretary of State.''

 ``certificate of appointment


``To the President of the Senate of the United States:
 ``This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in 
me by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
State of ____, I, A____ B____, the governor of said State, do 
hereby appoint C____ D____ a Senator from said State to 
represent said State in the Senate of the United States until 
the vacancy therein caused by the ____ of E____ F____, is 
filled by election as provided by law.
 ``Witness: His excellency our governor ____, and our seal 
hereto affixed at ______ this ____ day of ____, in the year of 
our Lord 20____.
 ``By the governor:
 ``G____ H____,
 ``Governor.
``I____ J____,
 ``Secretary of State.''

 RULE III


 oaths


 The oaths or affirmations required by the Constitution and 
prescribed by law shall be taken and subscribed by each 
Senator, in open Senate, before entering upon his duties.


 oath required by the constitution and by law to be taken by senators


 ``I, A____ B____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will 
support and defend the Constitution of the United States 
against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear 
true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this 
obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of 
evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the 
duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me 
God.'' (5 U.S.C. 3331.)

 RULE IV


 commencement of daily sessions


 1. (a) \2\ The Presiding Officer having taken the chair, 
following the prayer by the Chaplain and after the Presiding 
Officer, or a Senator designated by the Presiding Officer, 
leads the Senate from the dais in reciting the Pledge of 
Allegiance to the Flag of the United States, and a quorum being 
present, the Journal of the preceding day shall be read unless 
by nondebatable motion the reading shall be waived, the 
question being, ``Shall the Journal stand approved to date?'', 
and any mistake made in the entries corrected. Except as 
provided in subparagraph (b) the reading of the Journal shall 
not be suspended unless by unanimous consent; and when any 
motion shall be made to amend or correct the same, it shall be 
deemed a privileged question, and proceeded with until disposed 
of.
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 \2\ As amended, S. Res. 28, 99-2, Feb. 27, 1986; S. Res. 113, 106-
1, June 23, 1999.
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 (b) Whenever the Senate is proceeding under paragraph 2 of 
rule XXII, the reading of the Journal shall be dispensed with 
and shall be considered approved to date.
 (c) The proceedings of the Senate shall be briefly and 
accurately stated on the Journal. Messages of the President in 
full; titles of bills and resolutions, and such parts as shall 
be affected by proposed amendments; every vote, and a brief 
statement of the contents of each petition, memorial, or paper 
presented to the Senate, shall be entered.
 (d) The legislative, the executive, the confidential 
legislative proceedings, and the proceedings when sitting as a 
Court of Impeachment, shall each be recorded in a separate 
book.
 2. During a session of the Senate when that body is in 
continuous session, the Presiding Officer shall temporarily 
suspend the business of the Senate at noon each day for the 
purpose of having the customary daily prayer by the Chaplain.

 RULE V


 suspension and amendment of the rules


 1. No motion to suspend, modify, or amend any rule, or any 
part thereof, shall be in order, except on one day's notice in 
writing, specifying precisely the rule or part proposed to be 
suspended, modified, or amended, and the purpose thereof. Any 
rule may be suspended without notice by the unanimous consent 
of the Senate, except as otherwise provided by the rules.
 2. The rules of the Senate shall continue from one Congress 
to the next Congress unless they are changed as provided in 
these rules.

 RULE VI


 quorum--absent senators may be sent for


 1. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Senators 
duly chosen and sworn.
 2. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the 
Senate without leave.
 3. If, at any time during the daily sessions of the Senate, 
a question shall be raised by any Senator as to the presence of 
a quorum, the Presiding Officer shall forthwith direct the 
Secretary to call the roll and shall announce the result, and 
these proceedings shall be without debate.
 4. Whenever upon such roll call it shall be ascertained 
that a quorum is not present, a majority of the Senators 
present may direct the Sergeant at Arms to request, and, when 
necessary, to compel the attendance of the absent Senators, 
which order shall be determined without debate; and pending its 
execution, and until a quorum shall be present, no debate nor 
motion, except to adjourn, or to recess pursuant to a previous 
order entered by unanimous consent, shall be in order.

 RULE VII


 morning business


 1. On each legislative day after the Journal is read, the 
Presiding Officer on demand of any Senator shall lay before the 
Senate messages from the President, reports and communications 
from the heads of Departments, and other communications 
addressed to the Senate, and such bills, joint resolutions, and 
other messages from the House of Representatives as may remain 
upon his table from any previous day's session undisposed of. 
The Presiding Officer on demand of any Senator shall then call 
for, in the following order:
 The presentation of petitions and memorials.
 Reports of committees.
 The introduction of bills and joint resolutions.
 The submission of other resolutions.
All of which shall be received and disposed of in such order, 
unless unanimous consent shall be otherwise given, with newly 
offered resolutions being called for before resolutions coming 
over from a previous legislative day are laid before the 
Senate.
 2. Until the morning business shall have been concluded, 
and so announced from the Chair, or until one hour after the 
Senate convenes at the beginning of a new legislative day, no 
motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill, resolution, 
report of a committee, or other subject upon the Calendar shall 
be entertained by the Presiding Officer, unless by unanimous 
consent: Provided, however, That on Mondays which are the 
beginning of a legislative day the Calendar shall be called 
under rule VIII, and until two hours after the Senate convenes 
no motion shall be entertained to proceed to the consideration 
of any bill, resolution, or other subject upon the Calendar 
except the motion to continue the consideration of a bill, 
resolution, or other subject against objection as provided in 
rule VIII, or until the call of the Calendar has been 
completed.
 3. The Presiding Officer may at any time lay, and it shall 
be in order at any time for a Senator to move to lay, before 
the Senate, any bill or other matter sent to the Senate by the 
President or the House of Representatives for appropriate 
action allowed under the rules and any question pending at that 
time shall be suspended for this purpose. Any motion so made 
shall be determined without debate.
 4. Petitions or memorials shall be referred, without 
debate, to the appropriate committee according to subject 
matter on the same basis as bills and resolutions, if signed by 
the petitioner or memorialist. A question of receiving or 
reference may be raised and determined without debate. But no 
petition or memorial or other paper signed by citizens or 
subjects of a foreign power shall be received, unless the same 
be transmitted to the Senate by the President.
 5. Only a brief statement of the contents of petitions and 
memorials shall be printed in the Congressional Record; and no 
other portion of any petition or memorial shall be printed in 
the Record unless specifically so ordered by vote of the 
Senate, as provided for in paragraph 4 of rule XI, in which 
case the order shall be deemed to apply to the body of the 
petition or memorial only; and names attached to the petition 
or memorial shall not be printed unless specially ordered, 
except that petitions and memorials from the legislatures or 
conventions, lawfully called, of the respective States, 
Territories, and insular possessions shall be printed in full 
in the Record whenever presented.
 6. Senators having petitions, memorials, bills, or 
resolutions to present after the morning hour may deliver them 
in the absence of objection to the Presiding Officer's desk, 
endorsing upon them their names, and with the approval of the 
Presiding Officer, they shall be entered on the Journal with 
the names of the Senators presenting them and in the absence of 
objection shall be considered as having been read twice and 
referred to the appropriate committees, and a transcript of 
such entries shall be furnished to the official reporter of 
debates for publication in the Congressional Record, under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Senate.

 RULE VIII


 order of business


 1. At the conclusion of the morning business at the 
beginning of a new legislative day, unless upon motion the 
Senate shall at any time otherwise order, the Senate shall 
proceed to the consideration of the Calendar of Bills and 
Resolutions, and shall continue such consideration until 2 
hours after the Senate convenes on such day (the end of the 
morning hour); and bills and resolutions that are not objected 
to shall be taken up in their order, and each Senator shall be 
entitled to speak once and for five minutes only upon any 
question; and an objection may be interposed at any stage of 
the proceedings, but upon motion the Senate may continue such 
consideration; and this order shall commence immediately after 
the call for ``other resolutions'', or after disposition of 
resolutions coming ``over under the rule'', and shall take 
precedence of the unfinished business and other special orders. 
But if the Senate shall proceed on motion with the 
consideration of any matter notwithstanding an objection, the 
foregoing provisions touching debate shall not apply.
 2. All motions made during the first two hours of a new 
legislative day to proceed to the consideration of any matter 
shall be determined without debate, except motions to proceed 
to the consideration of any motion, resolution, or proposal to 
change any of the Standing Rules of the Senate shall be 
debatable. Motions made after the first two hours of a new 
legislative day to proceed to the consideration of bills and 
resolutions are debatable.

 RULE IX


 messages


 1. Messages from the President of the United States or from 
the House of Representatives may be received at any stage of 
proceedings, except while the Senate is voting or ascertaining 
the presence of a quorum, or while the Journal is being read, 
or while a question of order or a motion to adjourn is pending.
 2. Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives 
by the Secretary, who shall previously certify the 
determination of the Senate upon all bills, joint resolutions, 
and other resolutions which may be communicated to the House, 
or in which its concurrence may be requested; and the Secretary 
shall also certify and deliver to the President of the United 
States all resolutions and other communications which may be 
directed to him by the Senate.

 RULE X


 special orders


 1. Any subject may, by a vote of two-thirds of the Senators 
present, be made a special order of business for consideration 
and when the time so fixed for its consideration arrives the 
Presiding Officer shall lay it before the Senate, unless there 
be unfinished business in which case it takes its place on the 
Calendar of Special Orders in the order of time at which it was 
made special, to be considered in that order when there is no 
unfinished business.
 2. All motions to change such order, or to proceed to the 
consideration of other business, shall be decided without 
debate.

 RULE XI


 papers--withdrawal, printing, reading of, and reference


 1. No memorial or other paper presented to the Senate, 
except original treaties finally acted upon, shall be withdrawn 
from its files except by order of the Senate.
 2. The Secretary of the Senate shall obtain at the close of 
each Congress all the noncurrent records of the Senate and of 
each Senate committee and transfer them to the National 
Archives and Records Administration for preservation, subject 
to the orders of the Senate.
 3. When the reading of a paper is called for, and objected 
to, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate, without 
debate.
 4. Every motion or resolution to print documents, reports, 
and other matter transmitted by the executive departments, or 
to print memorials, petitions, accompanying documents, or any 
other paper, except bills of the Senate or House of 
Representatives, resolutions submitted by a Senator, 
communications from the legislatures or conventions, lawfully 
called, of the respective States, shall, unless the Senate 
otherwise order, be referred to the Committee on Rules and 
Administration. When a motion is made to commit with 
instructions, it shall be in order to add thereto a motion to 
print.
 5. Motions or resolutions to print additional numbers shall 
also be referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration; 
and when the committee shall report favorably, the report shall 
be accompanied by an estimate of the probable cost thereof; and 
when the cost of printing such additional numbers shall exceed 
the sum established by law, the concurrence of the House of 
Representatives shall be necessary for an order to print the 
same.
 6. Every bill and joint resolution introduced or reported 
from a committee, and all bills and joint resolutions received 
from the House of Representatives, and all reports of 
committees, shall be printed, unless, for the dispatch of the 
business of the Senate, such printing may be dispensed with.

 RULE XII


 voting procedure


 1. When the yeas and nays are ordered, the names of 
Senators shall be called alphabetically; and each Senator 
shall, without debate, declare his assent or dissent to the 
question, unless excused by the Senate; and no Senator shall be 
permitted to vote after the decision shall have been announced 
by the Presiding Officer, but may for sufficient reasons, with 
unanimous consent, change or withdraw his vote. No motion to 
suspend this rule shall be in order, nor shall the Presiding 
Officer entertain any request to suspend it by unanimous 
consent.
 2. When a Senator declines to vote on call of his name, he 
shall be required to assign his reasons therefor, and having 
assigned them, the Presiding Officer shall submit the question 
to the Senate: ``Shall the Senator for the reasons assigned by 
him, be excused from voting?'' which shall be decided without 
debate; and these proceedings shall be had after the rollcall 
and before the result is announced; and any further proceedings 
in reference thereto shall be after such announcement.
 3. A Member, notwithstanding any other provisions of this 
rule, may decline to vote, in committee or on the floor, on any 
matter when he believes that his voting on such a matter would 
be a conflict of interest.
 4. No request by a Senator for unanimous consent for the 
taking of a final vote on a specified date upon the passage of 
a bill or joint resolution shall be submitted to the Senate for 
agreement thereto until after a quorum call ordered for the 
purpose by the Presiding Officer, it shall be disclosed that a 
quorum of the Senate is present; and when a unanimous consent 
is thus given the same shall operate as the order of the 
Senate, but any unanimous consent may be revoked by another 
unanimous consent granted in the manner prescribed above upon 
one day's notice.

 RULE XIII


 reconsideration


 1. When a question has been decided by the Senate, any 
Senator voting with the prevailing side or who has not voted 
may, on the same day or on either of the next two days of 
actual session thereafter, move a reconsideration; and if the 
Senate shall refuse to reconsider such a motion entered, or if 
such a motion is withdrawn by leave of the Senate, or if upon 
reconsideration the Senate shall affirm its first decision, no 
further motion to reconsider shall be in order unless by 
unanimous consent. Every motion to reconsider shall be decided 
by a majority vote, and may be laid on the table without 
affecting the question in reference to which the same is made, 
which shall be a final disposition of the motion.
 2. When a bill, resolution, report, amendment, order, or 
message, upon which a vote has been taken, shall have gone out 
of the possession of the Senate and been communicated to the 
House of Representatives, the motion to reconsider shall be 
accompanied by a motion to request the House to return the 
same; which last motion shall be acted upon immediately, and 
without debate, and if determined in the negative shall be a 
final disposition of the motion to reconsider.

 RULE XIV


 bills, joint resolutions, resolutions, and preambles thereto


 1. Whenever a bill or joint resolution shall be offered, 
its introduction shall, if objected to, be postponed for one 
day.
 2. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three 
readings previous to its passage which readings on demand of 
any Senator shall be on three different legislative days, and 
the Presiding Officer shall give notice at each reading whether 
it be the first, second, or third: Provided, That each reading 
may be by title only, unless the Senate in any case shall 
otherwise order.
 3. No bill or joint resolution shall be committed or 
amended until it shall have been twice read, after which it may 
be referred to a committee; bills and joint resolutions 
introduced on leave, and bills and joint resolutions from the 
House of Representatives, shall be read once, and may be read 
twice, if not objected to, on the same day for reference, but 
shall not be considered on that day nor debated, except for 
reference, unless by unanimous consent.
 4. Every bill and joint resolution reported from a 
committee, not having previously been read, shall be read once, 
and twice, if not objected to, on the same day, and placed on 
the Calendar in the order in which the same may be reported; 
and every bill and joint resolution introduced on leave, and 
every bill and joint resolution of the House of Representatives 
which shall have received a first and second reading without 
being referred to a committee, shall, if objection be made to 
further proceeding thereon, be placed on the Calendar.
 5. All bills, amendments, and joint resolutions shall be 
examined under the supervision of the Secretary of the Senate 
before they go out of the possession of the Senate, and all 
bills and joint resolutions which shall have passed both Houses 
shall be examined under the supervision of the Secretary of the 
Senate, to see that the same are correctly enrolled, and, when 
signed by the Speaker of the House and the President of the 
Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall forthwith present the 
same, when they shall have originated in the Senate, to the 
President of the United States and report the fact and date of 
such presentation to the Senate.
 6. All other resolutions shall lie over one day for 
consideration, if not referred, unless by unanimous consent the 
Senate shall otherwise direct. When objection is heard to the 
immediate consideration of a resolution or motion when it is 
submitted, it shall be placed on the Calendar under the heading 
of ``Resolutions and Motions over, under the Rule,'' to be laid 
before the Senate on the next legislative day when there is no 
further morning business but before the close of morning 
business and before the termination of the morning hour.
 7. When a bill or joint resolution shall have been ordered 
to be read a third time, it shall not be in order to propose 
amendments, unless by unanimous consent, but it shall be in 
order at any time before the passage of any bill or resolution 
to move its commitment; and when the bill or resolution shall 
again be reported from the committee it shall be placed on the 
Calendar.
 8. When a bill or resolution is accompanied by a preamble, 
the question shall first be put on the bill or resolution and 
then on the preamble, which may be withdrawn by a mover before 
an amendment of the same, or ordering of the yeas and nays; or 
it may be laid on the table without prejudice to the bill or 
resolution, and shall be a final disposition of such preamble.
 9. Whenever a private bill, except a bill for a pension, is 
under consideration, it shall be in order to move the adoption 
of a resolution to refer the bill to the Chief Commissioner of 
the Court of Claims for a report in conformity with section 
2509 of title 28, United States Code.
 10. No private bill or resolution (including so-called 
omnibus claims or pension bills), and no amendment to any bill 
or resolution, authorizing or directing (1) the payment of 
money for property damages, personal injuries, or death, for 
which a claim may be filed under chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code, or for a pension (other than to carry out a 
provision of law or treaty stipulation); (2) the construction 
of a bridge across a navigable stream; or (3) the correction of 
a military or naval record, shall be received or considered.

 RULE XV


 amendments and motions


 1. All motions and amendments shall be reduced to writing, 
if desired by the Presiding Officer or by any Senator, and 
shall be read before the same shall be debated.
 2. Any motion, amendment, or resolution may be withdrawn or 
modified by the mover at any time before a decision, amendment, 
or ordering of the yeas and nays, except a motion to 
reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave.
 3. If the question in debate contains several propositions, 
any Senator may have the same divided, except a motion to 
strike out and insert, which shall not be divided; but the 
rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition 
shall not prevent a motion to strike out and insert a different 
proposition; nor shall it prevent a motion simply to strike 
out; nor shall the rejection of a motion to strike out prevent 
a motion to strike out and insert. But pending a motion to 
strike out and insert, the part to be stricken out and the part 
to be inserted shall each be regarded for the purpose of 
amendment as a question, and motions to amend the part to be 
stricken out shall have precedence.
 4. When an amendment proposed to any pending measure is 
laid on the table, it shall not carry with it, or prejudice, 
such measure.
 5. It shall not be in order to consider any proposed 
committee amendment (other than a technical, clerical, or 
conforming amendment) which contains any significant matter not 
within the jurisdiction of the committee proposing such 
amendment.

 RULE XVI


 appropriations and amendments to general appropriations bills


 1. On a point of order made by any Senator, no amendments 
shall be received to any general appropriation bill the effect 
of which will be to increase an appropriation already contained 
in the bill, or to add a new item of appropriation, unless it 
be made to carry out the provisions of some existing law, or 
treaty stipulation, or act or resolution previously passed by 
the Senate during that session; or unless the same be moved by 
direction of the Committee on Appropriations or of a committee 
of the Senate having legislative jurisdiction of the subject 
matter, or proposed in pursuance of an estimate submitted in 
accordance with law.
 2. The Committee on Appropriations shall not report an 
appropriation bill containing amendments to such bill proposing 
new or general legislation or any restriction on the 
expenditure of the funds appropriated which proposes a 
limitation not authorized by law if such restriction is to take 
effect or cease to be effective upon the happening of a 
contingency, and if an appropriation bill is reported to the 
Senate containing amendments to such bill proposing new or 
general legislation or any such restriction, a point of order 
may be made against the bill, and if the point is sustained, 
the bill shall be recommitted to the Committee on 
Appropriations.
 3. All amendments to general appropriation bills moved by 
direction of a committee having legislative jurisdiction of the 
subject matter proposing to increase an appropriation already 
contained in the bill, or to add new items of appropriation, 
shall, at least one day before they are considered, be referred 
to the Committee on Appropriations, and when actually proposed 
to the bill no amendment proposing to increase the amount 
stated in such amendment shall be received on a point of order 
made by any Senator.
 4. On a point of order made by any Senator, no amendment 
offered by any other Senator which proposes general legislation 
shall be received to any general appropriation bill, nor shall 
any amendment not germane or relevant to the subject matter 
contained in the bill be received; nor shall any amendment to 
any item or clause of such bill be received which does not 
directly relate thereto; nor shall any restriction on the 
expenditure of the funds appropriated which proposes a 
limitation not authorized by law be received if such 
restriction is to take effect or cease to be effective upon the 
happening of a contingency; and all questions of relevancy of 
amendments under this rule, when raised, shall be submitted to 
the Senate and be decided without debate; and any such 
amendment or restriction to a general appropriation bill may be 
laid on the table without prejudice to the bill.
 5. On a point of order made by any Senator, no amendment, 
the object of which is to provide for a private claim, shall be 
received to any general appropriation bill, unless it be to 
carry out the provisions of an existing law or a treaty 
stipulation, which shall be cited on the face of the amendment.
 6. When a point of order is made against any restriction on 
the expenditure of funds appropriated in a general 
appropriation bill on the ground that the restriction violates 
this rule, the rule shall be construed strictly and, in case of 
doubt, in favor of the point of order.
 7. Every report on general appropriation bills filed by the 
Committee on Appropriations shall identify with particularity 
each recommended amendment which proposes an item of 
appropriation which is not made to carry out the provisions of 
an existing law, a treaty stipulation, or an act or resolution 
previously passed by the Senate during that session.
 8. On a point of order made by any Senator, no general 
appropriation bill or amendment thereto shall be received or 
considered if it contains a provision reappropriating 
unexpended balances of appropriations; except that this 
provision shall not apply to appropriations in continuation of 
appropriations for public works on which work has commenced.

 RULE XVII


 reference to committees; motions to discharge; reports of committees; 
 and hearings available


 1. Except as provided in paragraph 3, in any case in which 
a controversy arises as to the jurisdiction of any committee 
with respect to any proposed legislation, the question of 
jurisdiction shall be decided by the Presiding Officer, without 
debate, in favor of the committee which has jurisdiction over 
the subject matter which predominates in such proposed 
legislation; but such decision shall be subject to an appeal.
 2. A motion simply to refer shall not be open to amendment, 
except to add instructions.
 3. (a) Upon motion by both the majority leader or his 
designee and the minority leader or his designee, proposed 
legislation may be referred to two or more committees jointly 
or sequentially. Notice of such motion and the proposed 
legislation to which it relates shall be printed in the 
Congressional Record. The motion shall be privileged, but it 
shall not be in order until the Congressional Record in which 
the notice is printed has been available to Senators for at 
least twenty-four hours. No amendment to any such motion shall 
be in order except amendments to any instructions contained 
therein. Debate on any such motion, and all amendments thereto 
and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, 
shall be limited to not more than two hours, the time to be 
equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader 
and the minority leader or their designees.
 (b) Proposed legislation which is referred to two or more 
committees jointly may be reported only by such committees 
jointly and only one report may accompany any proposed 
legislation so jointly reported.
 (c) A motion to refer any proposed legislation to two or 
more committees sequentially shall specify the order of 
referral.
 (d) Any motion under this paragraph may specify the portion 
or portions of proposed legislation to be considered by the 
committees, or any of them, to which such proposed legislation 
is referred, and such committees or committee shall be limited, 
in the consideration of such proposed legislation, to the 
portion or portions so specified.
 (e) Any motion under this subparagraph may contain 
instructions with respect to the time allowed for consideration 
by the committees, or any of them, to which proposed 
legislation is referred and the discharge of such committees, 
or any of them, from further consideration of such proposed 
legislation.
 4. (a) All reports of committees and motions to discharge a 
committee from the consideration of a subject, and all subjects 
from which a committee shall be discharged, shall lie over one 
day for consideration, unless by unanimous consent the Senate 
shall otherwise direct.
 (b) Whenever any committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations) has reported any measure, by action taken in 
conformity with the requirements of paragraph 7 of rule XXVI, 
no point of order shall lie with respect to that measure on the 
ground that hearings upon that measure by the committee were 
not conducted in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 4 
of rule XXVI.
 5. \3\ Any measure or matter reported by any standing 
committee shall not be considered in the Senate unless the 
report of that committee upon that measure or matter has been 
available to Members for at least two calendar days (excluding 
Sundays and legal holidays) prior to the consideration of that 
measure or matter. If hearings have been held on any such 
measure or matter so reported, the committee reporting the 
measure or matter shall make every reasonable effort to have 
such hearings printed and available for distribution to the 
Members of the Senate prior to the consideration of such 
measure or matter in the Senate. This paragraph--
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 (1) may be waived by joint agreement of the Majority Leader 
and the Minority Leader of the Senate; and
 (2) shall not apply to--
 (A) any measure for the declaration of war, or the 
 declaration of a national emergency, by the Congress, 
 and
 (B) any executive decision, determination, or action 
 which would become, or continue to be, effective unless 
 disapproved or otherwise invalidated by one or both 
 Houses of Congress.

 RULE XVIII


 business continued from session to session


 At the second or any subsequent session of a Congress the 
legislative business of the Senate which remained undetermined 
at the close of the next preceding session of that Congress 
shall be resumed and proceeded with in the same manner as if no 
adjournment of the Senate had taken place.

 RULE XIX


 debate


 1. (a) When a Senator desires to speak, he shall rise and 
address the Presiding Officer, and shall not proceed until he 
is recognized, and the Presiding Officer shall recognize the 
Senator who shall first address him. No Senator shall interrupt 
another Senator in debate without his consent, and to obtain 
such consent he shall first address the Presiding Officer, and 
no Senator shall speak more than twice upon any one question in 
debate on the same legislative day without leave of the Senate, 
which shall be determined without debate.
 (b) At the conclusion of the morning hour at the beginning 
of a new legislative day or after the unfinished business or 
any pending business has first been laid before the Senate on 
any calendar day, and until after the duration of three hours 
of actual session after such business is laid down except as 
determined to the contrary by unanimous consent or on motion 
without debate, all debate shall be germane and confined to the 
specific question then pending before the Senate.
 2. No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by 
any form of words impute to another Senator or to other 
Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a 
Senator.
 3. No Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any 
State of the Union.
 4. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, in the opinion 
of the Presiding Officer transgress the rules of the Senate the 
Presiding Officer shall, either on his own motion or at the 
request of any other Senator, call him to order; and when a 
Senator shall be called to order he shall take his seat, and 
may not proceed without leave of the Senate, which, if granted, 
shall be upon motion that he be allowed to proceed in order, 
which motion shall be determined without debate. Any Senator 
directed by the Presiding Officer to take his seat, and any 
Senator requesting the Presiding Officer to require a Senator 
to take his seat, may appeal from the ruling of the Chair, 
which appeal shall be open to debate.
 5. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in 
debate, upon the demand of the Senator or of any other Senator, 
the exceptionable words shall be taken down in writing, and 
read at the table for the information of the Senate.
 6. Whenever confusion arises in the Chamber or the 
galleries, or demonstrations of approval or disapproval are 
indulged in by the occupants of the galleries, it shall be the 
duty of the Chair to enforce order on his own initiative and 
without any point of order being made by a Senator.
 7. No Senator shall introduce to or bring to the attention 
of the Senate during its sessions any occupant in the galleries 
of the Senate. No motion to suspend this rule shall be in 
order, nor may the Presiding Officer entertain any request to 
suspend it by unanimous consent.
 8. Former Presidents of the United States shall be entitled 
to address the Senate upon appropriate notice to the Presiding 
Officer who shall thereupon make the necessary arrangements.

 RULE XX


 questions of order


 1. A question of order may be raised at any stage of the 
proceedings, except when the Senate is voting or ascertaining 
the presence of a quorum, and, unless submitted to the Senate, 
shall be decided by the Presiding Officer without debate, 
subject to an appeal to the Senate. When an appeal is taken, 
any subsequent question of order which may arise before the 
decision of such appeal shall be decided by the Presiding 
Officer without debate; and every appeal therefrom shall be 
decided at once, and without debate; and any appeal may be laid 
on the table without prejudice to the pending proposition, and 
thereupon shall be held as affirming the decision of the 
Presiding Officer.
 2. The Presiding Officer may submit any question of order 
for the decision of the Senate.

 RULE XXI


 session with closed doors


 1. On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the 
Senate, on the discussion of any business which may, in the 
opinion of a Senator, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer 
shall direct the galleries to be cleared; and during the 
discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed.
 2. When the Senate meets in closed session, any applicable 
provisions of rules XXIX and XXXI, including the 
confidentiality of information shall apply to any information 
and to the conduct of any debate transacted.

 RULE XXII


 precedence of motions


 1. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received 
but--
 To adjourn.
 To adjourn to a day certain, or that when the Senate 
adjourn it shall be to a day certain.
 To take a recess.
 To proceed to the consideration of executive business.
 To lay on the table.
 To postpone indefinitely.
 To postpone to a day certain.
 To commit.
 To amend.
Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand 
arranged; and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a 
recess, to proceed to the consideration of executive business, 
to lay on the table, shall be decided without debate.
 2. \4\ Notwithstanding the provisions of rule II or rule IV 
or any other rule of the Senate, at any time a motion signed by 
sixteen Senators, to bring to a close the debate upon any 
measure, motion, other matter pending before the Senate, or the 
unfinished business, is presented to the Senate, the Presiding 
Officer, or clerk at the direction of the Presiding Officer, 
shall at once state the motion to the Senate, and one hour 
after the Senate meets on the following calendar day but one, 
he shall lay the motion before the Senate and direct that the 
clerk call the roll, and upon the ascertainment that a quorum 
is present, the Presiding Officer shall, without debate, submit 
to the Senate by a yea-and-nay vote the question:
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 ``Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be 
brought to a close?'' And if that question shall be decided in 
the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and 
sworn--except on a measure or motion to amend the Senate rules, 
in which case the necessary affirmative vote shall be two-
thirds of the Senators present and voting--then said measure, 
motion, or other matter pending before the Senate, or the 
unfinished business, shall be the unfinished business to the 
exclusion of all other business until disposed of.
 Thereafter no Senator shall be entitled to speak in all 
more than one hour on the measure, motion, or other matter 
pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, the 
amendments thereto, and motions affecting the same, and it 
shall be the duty of the Presiding Officer to keep the time of 
each Senator who speaks. Except by unanimous consent, no 
amendment shall be proposed after the vote to bring the debate 
to a close, unless it had been submitted in writing to the 
Journal Clerk by 1 o'clock p.m. on the day following the filing 
of the cloture motion if an amendment in the first degree, and 
unless it had been so submitted at least one hour prior to the 
beginning of the cloture vote if an amendment in the second 
degree. No dilatory motion, or dilatory amendment, or amendment 
not germane shall be in order. Points of order, including 
questions of relevancy, and appeals from the decision of the 
Presiding Officer, shall be decided without debate.
 After no more than thirty hours of consideration of the 
measure, motion, or other matter on which cloture has been 
invoked, the Senate shall proceed, without any further debate 
on any question, to vote on the final disposition thereof to 
the exclusion of all amendments not then actually pending 
before the Senate at that time and to the exclusion of all 
motions, except a motion to table, or to reconsider and one 
quorum call on demand to establish the presence of a quorum 
(and motions required to establish a quorum) immediately before 
the final vote begins. The thirty hours may be increased by the 
adoption of a motion, decided without debate, by a three-fifths 
affirmative vote of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, and any 
such time thus agreed upon shall be equally divided between and 
controlled by the Majority and Minority Leaders or their 
designees. However, only one motion to extend time, specified 
above, may be made in any one calendar day.
 If, for any reason, a measure or matter is reprinted after 
cloture has been invoked, amendments which were in order prior 
to the reprinting of the measure or matter will continue to be 
in order and may be conformed and reprinted at the request of 
the amendment's sponsor. The conforming changes must be limited 
to lineation and pagination.
 No Senator shall call up more than two amendments until 
every other Senator shall have had the opportunity to do 
likewise.
 Notwithstanding other provisions of this rule, a Senator 
may yield all or part of his one hour to the majority or 
minority floor managers of the measure, motion, or matter or to 
the Majority or Minority Leader, but each Senator specified 
shall not have more than two hours so yielded to him and may in 
turn yield such time to other Senators.
 Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, any 
Senator who has not used or yielded at least ten minutes, is, 
if he seeks recognition, guaranteed up to ten minutes, 
inclusive, to speak only.
 After cloture is invoked, the reading of any amendment, 
including House amendments, shall be dispensed with when the 
proposed amendment has been identified and has been available 
in printed form at the desk of the Members for not less than 
twenty-four hours.

 RULE XXIII


 privilege of the floor


 Other than the Vice President and Senators, no person shall 
be admitted to the floor of the Senate while in session, except 
as follows:
 The President of the United States and his private 
secretary.
 The President elect and Vice President elect of the United 
States.
 Ex-Presidents and ex-Vice Presidents of the United States.
 Judges of the Supreme Court.
 Ex-Senators and Senators elect.
 The officers and employees of the Senate in the discharge 
of their official duties.
 Ex-Secretaries and ex-Sergeants at Arms of the Senate.
 Members of the House of Representatives and Members elect.
 Ex-Speakers of the House of Representatives.
 The Sergeant at Arms of the House and his chief deputy and 
the Clerk of the House and his deputy.
 Heads of the Executive Departments.
 Ambassadors and Ministers of the United States.
 Governors of States and Territories.
 Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 The General Commanding the Army.
 The Senior Admiral of the Navy on the active list.
 Members of National Legislatures of foreign countries and 
Members of the European Parliament.
 Judges of the Court of Claims.
 The Mayor of the District of Columbia.
 The Librarian of Congress and the Assistant Librarian in 
charge of the Law Library.
 The Architect of the Capitol.
 The Chaplain of the House of Representatives.
 The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
 The Parliamentarian Emeritus of the Senate.
 Members of the staffs of committees of the Senate and joint 
committees of the Congress when in the discharge of their 
official duties and employees in the office of a Senator when 
in the discharge of their official duties (but in each case 
subject to such rules or regulations as may be prescribed by 
the Committee on Rules and Administration). Senate committee 
staff members and employees in the office of a Senator must be 
on the payroll of the Senate and members of joint committee 
staffs must be on the payroll of the Senate or the House of 
Representatives.

 RULE XXIV


 appointment of committees


 1. In the appointment of the standing committees, or to 
fill vacancies thereon, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, 
shall by resolution appoint the chairman of each such committee 
and the other members thereof. On demand of any Senator, a 
separate vote shall be had on the appointment of the chairman 
of any such committee and on the appointment of the other 
members thereof. Each such resolution shall be subject to 
amendment and to division of the question.
 2. On demand of one-fifth of the Senators present, a quorum 
being present, any vote taken pursuant to paragraph 1 shall be 
by ballot.
 3. Except as otherwise provided or unless otherwise 
ordered, all other committees, and the chairmen thereof, shall 
be appointed in the same manner as standing committees.
 4. When a chairman of a committee shall resign or cease to 
serve on a committee, action by the Senate to fill the vacancy 
in such committee, unless specially otherwise ordered, shall be 
only to fill up the number of members of the committee, and the 
election of a new chairman.

 RULE XXV


 standing committees


 1. The following standing committees shall be appointed at 
the commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and have 
the power to act until their successors are appointed, with 
leave to report by bill or otherwise on matters within their 
respective jurisdictions:
 (a)(1) Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, 
to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating 
primarily to the following subjects:
 1. Agricultural economics and research.
 2. Agricultural extension services and experiment stations.
 3. Agricultural production, marketing, and stabilization of 
prices.
 4. Agriculture and agricultural commodities.
 5. Animal industry and diseases.
 6. Crop insurance and soil conservation.
 7. Farm credit and farm security.
 8. Food from fresh waters.
 9. Food stamp programs.
 10. Forestry, and forest reserves and wilderness areas 
other than those created from the public domain.
 11. Home economics.
 12. Human nutrition.
 13. Inspection of livestock, meat, and agricultural 
products.
 14. Pests and pesticides.
 15. Plant industry, soils, and agricultural engineering.
 16. Rural development, rural electrification, and 
watersheds.
 17. School nutrition programs.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to food, nutrition, and 
hunger, both in the United States and in foreign countries, and 
rural affairs, and report thereon from time to time.
 (b) Committee on Appropriations, to which committee shall 
be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, 
memorials, and other matters relating to the following 
subjects:
 1. Appropriation of the revenue for the support of the 
Government, except as provided in subparagraph (e).
 2. Rescission of appropriations contained in appropriation 
Acts (referred to in section 105 of title 1, United States 
Code).
 3. The amount of new spending authority described in 
section 401(c)(2)(A) and (B) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 which is to be effective for a fiscal year.
 4. New spending authority described in section 401(c)(2)(C) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 provided in bills and 
resolutions referred to the committee under section 401(b)(2) 
of that Act (but subject to the provisions of section 401(b)(3) 
of that Act).
 (c)(1) Committee on Armed Services, to which committee 
shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
 1. Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to or 
primarily associated with the development of weapons systems or 
military operations.
 2. Common defense.
 3. Department of Defense, the Department of the Army, the 
Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force, 
generally.
 4. Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, including 
administration, sanitation, and government of the Canal Zone.
 5. Military research and development.
 6. National security aspects of nuclear energy.
 7. Naval petroleum reserves, except those in Alaska.
 8. Pay, promotion, retirement, and other benefits and 
privileges of members of the Armed Forces, including overseas 
education of civilian and military dependents.
 9. Selective service system.
 10. Strategic and critical materials necessary for the 
common defense.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to the common defense 
policy of the United States, and report thereon from time to 
time.
 (d)(1) Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, to 
which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to 
the following subjects:
 1. Banks, banking, and financial institutions.
 2. Control of prices of commodities, rents, and services.
 3. Deposit insurance.
 4. Economic stabilization and defense production.
 5. Export and foreign trade promotion.
 6. Export controls.
 7. Federal monetary policy, including Federal Reserve 
System.
 8. Financial aid to commerce and industry.
 9. Issuance and redemption of notes.
 10. Money and credit, including currency and coinage.
 11. Nursing home construction.
 12. Public and private housing (including veterans' 
housing).
 13. Renegotiation of Government contracts.
 14. Urban development and urban mass transit.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to international economic 
policy as it affects United States monetary affairs, credit, 
and financial institutions; economic growth, urban affairs, and 
credit, and report thereon from time to time.
 (e)(1) Committee on the Budget, to which committee shall be 
referred all concurrent resolutions on the budget (as defined 
in section 3(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) and 
all other matters required to be referred to that committee 
under titles III and IV of that Act, and messages, petitions, 
memorials, and other matters relating thereto.
 (2) Such committee shall have the duty--
 (A) to report the matters required to be reported by 
 it under titles III and IV of the Congressional Budget 
 Act of 1974;
 (B) to make continuing studies of the effect on 
 budget outlays of relevant existing and proposed 
 legislation and to report the results of such studies 
 to the Senate on a recurring basis;
 (C) to request and evaluate continuing studies of tax 
 expenditures, to devise methods of coordinating tax 
 expenditures, policies, and programs with direct budget 
 outlays, and to report the results of such studies to 
 the Senate on a recurring basis; and
 (D) to review, on a continuing basis, the conduct by 
 the Congressional Budget Office of its functions and 
 duties.
 (f)(1) Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 
to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, 
messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to 
the following subjects:
 1. Coast Guard.
 2. Coastal zone management.
 3. Communications.
 4. Highway safety.
 5. Inland waterways, except construction.
 6. Interstate commerce.
 7. Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation, 
including navigational aspects of deepwater ports.
 8. Marine fisheries.
 9. Merchant marine and navigation.
 10. Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences.
 11. Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities.
 12. Panama Canal and interoceanic canals generally, except 
as provided in subparagraph (c).
 13. Regulation of consumer products and services, including 
testing related to toxic substances, other than pesticides, and 
except for credit, financial services, and housing.
 14. Regulation of interstate common carriers, including 
railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil 
aviation.
 15. Science, engineering, and technology research and 
development and policy.
 16. Sports.
 17. Standards and measurement.
 18. Transportation.
 19. Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer 
Continental Shelf lands.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, all matters relating to science and 
technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications, and 
consumer affairs, and report thereon from time to time.
 (g)(1) Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which 
committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
 1. Coal production, distribution, and utilization.
 2. Energy policy.
 3. Energy regulation and conservation.
 4. Energy related aspects of deepwater ports.
 5. Energy research and development.
 6. Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer Continental 
Shelf lands.
 7. Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation.
 8. Mining education and research.
 9. Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral 
conservation.
 10. National parks, recreation areas, wilderness areas, 
wild and scenic rivers, historical sites, military parks and 
battlefields, and on the public domain, preservation of 
prehistoric ruins and objects of interest.
 11. Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska.
 12. Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy.
 13. Oil and gas production and distribution.
 14. Public lands and forests, including farming and grazing 
thereon, and mineral extraction therefrom.
 15. Solar energy systems.
 16. Territorial possessions of the United States, including 
trusteeships.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to energy and resources 
development, and report thereon from time to time.
 (h)(1) Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which 
committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
 1. Air pollution.
 2. Construction and maintenance of highways.
 3. Environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands.
 4. Environmental effects of toxic substances, other than 
pesticides.
 5. Environmental policy.
 6. Environmental research and development.
 7. Fisheries and wildlife.
 8. Flood control and improvements of rivers and harbors, 
including environmental aspects of deepwater ports.
 9. Noise pollution.
 10. Nonmilitary environmental regulation and control of 
nuclear energy.
 11. Ocean dumping.
 12. Public buildings and improved grounds of the United 
States generally, including Federal buildings in the District 
of Columbia.
 13. Public works, bridges, and dams.
 14. Regional economic development.
 15. Solid waste disposal and recycling.
 16. Water pollution.
 17. Water resources.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to environmental 
protection and resource utilization and conservation, and 
report thereon from time to time.
 (i) Committee on Finance, to which committee shall be 
referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, 
memorials, and other matters relating to the following 
subjects:
 1. Bonded debt of the United States, except as provided in 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
 2. Customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and 
delivery.
 3. Deposit of public moneys.
 4. General revenue sharing.
 5. Health programs under the Social Security Act and health 
programs financed by a specific tax or trust fund.
 6. National social security.
 7. Reciprocal trade agreements.
 8. Revenue measures generally, except as provided in the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
 9. Revenue measures relating to the insular possessions.
 10. Tariffs and import quotas, and matters related thereto.
 11. Transportation of dutiable goods.
 (j)(1) Committee on Foreign Relations, to which committee 
shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
 1. Acquisition of land and buildings for embassies and 
legations in foreign countries.
 2. Boundaries of the United States.
 3. Diplomatic service.
 4. Foreign economic, military, technical, and humanitarian 
assistance.
 5. Foreign loans.
 6. International activities of the American National Red 
Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
 7. International aspects of nuclear energy, including 
nuclear transfer policy.
 8. International conferences and congresses.
 9. International law as it relates to foreign policy.
 10. International Monetary Fund and other international 
organizations established primarily for international monetary 
purposes (except that, at the request of the Committee on 
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, any proposed legislation 
relating to such subjects reported by the Committee on Foreign 
Relations shall be referred to the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs).
 11. Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
 12. Measures to foster commercial intercourse with foreign 
nations and to safeguard American business interests abroad.
 13. National security and international aspects of 
trusteeships of the United States.
 14. Oceans and international environmental and scientific 
affairs as they relate to foreign policy.
 15. Protection of United States citizens abroad and 
expatriation.
 16. Relations of the United States with foreign nations 
generally.
 17. Treaties and executive agreements, except reciprocal 
trade agreements.
 18. United Nations and its affiliated organizations.
 19. World Bank group, the regional development banks, and 
other international organizations established primarily for 
development assistance purposes.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to the national security 
policy, foreign policy, and international economic policy as it 
relates to foreign policy of the United States, and matters 
relating to food, hunger, and nutrition in foreign countries, 
and report thereon from time to time.
 (k)(1) Committee on Governmental Affairs, to which 
committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
 1. Archives of the United States.
 2. Budget and accounting measures, other than 
appropriations, except as provided in the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974.
 3. Census and collection of statistics, including economic 
and social statistics.
 4. Congressional organization, except for any part of the 
matter that amends the rules or orders of the Senate.
 5. Federal Civil Service.
 6. Government information.
 7. Intergovernmental relations.
 8. Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia, except 
appropriations therefor.
 9. Organization and management of United States nuclear 
export policy.
 10. Organization and reorganization of the executive branch 
of the Government.
 11. Postal Service.
 12. Status of officers and employees of the United States, 
including their classification, compensation, and benefits.
 (2) Such committee shall have the duty of--
 (A) receiving and examining reports of the 
 Comptroller General of the United States and of 
 submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it 
 deems necessary or desirable in connection with the 
 subject matter of such reports;
 (B) studying the efficiency, economy, and 
 effectiveness of all agencies and departments of the 
 Government;
 (C) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to 
 reorganize the legislative and executive branches of 
 the Government; and
 (D) studying the intergovernmental relationships 
 between the United States and the States and 
 municipalities, and between the United States and 
 international organizations of which the United States 
 is a member.
 (l)(1) \5\ Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions, to which committee shall be referred all proposed 
legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters 
relating to the following subjects:
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 1. Measures relating to education, labor, health, and 
public welfare.
 2. Aging.
 3. Agricultural colleges.
 4. Arts and humanities.
 5. Biomedical research and development.
 6. Child labor.
 7. Convict labor and the entry of goods made by convicts 
into interstate commerce.
 8. Domestic activities of the American National Red Cross.
 9. Equal employment opportunity.
 10. Gallaudet College, Howard University, and Saint 
Elizabeths Hospital.
 11. Individuals with disabilities. \6\
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 12. Labor standards and labor statistics.
 13. Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.
 14. Occupational safety and health, including the welfare 
of miners.
 15. Private pension plans.
 16. Public health.
 17. Railway labor and retirement.
 18. Regulation of foreign laborers.
 19. Student loans.
 20. Wages and hours of labor.
 (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a 
comprehensive basis, matters relating to health, education and 
training, and public welfare, and report thereon from time to 
time.
 (m) \7\ Committee on the Judiciary, to which committee 
shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
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27, 2000.
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 1. Apportionment of Representatives.
 2. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and counterfeiting.
 3. Civil liberties.
 4. Constitutional amendments.
 5. Federal courts and judges.
 6. Government information.
 7. Holidays and celebrations.
 8. Immigration and naturalization.
 9. Interstate compacts generally.
 10. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, generally.
 11. Local courts in the territories and possessions.
 12. Measures relating to claims against the United States.
 13. National penitentiaries.
 14. Patent Office.
 15. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
 16. Protection of trade and commerce against unlawful 
restraints and monopolies.
 17. Revision and codification of the statutes of the United 
States.
 18. State and territorial boundary lines.
 (n)(1) Committee on Rules and Administration, to which 
committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
 1. Administration of the Senate Office Buildings and the 
Senate wing of the Capitol, including the assignment of office 
space.
 2. Congressional organization relative to rules and 
procedures, and Senate rules and regulations, including floor 
and gallery rules.
 3. Corrupt practices.
 4. Credentials and qualifications of Members of the Senate, 
contested elections, and acceptance of incompatible offices.
 5. Federal elections generally, including the election of 
the President, Vice President, and Members of the Congress.
 6. Government Printing Office, and the printing and 
correction of the Congressional Record, as well as those 
matters provided for under rule XI.
 7. Meetings of the Congress and attendance of Members.
 8. Payment of money out of the contingent fund of the 
Senate or creating a charge upon the same (except that any 
resolution relating to substantive matter within the 
jurisdiction of any other standing committee of the Senate 
shall be first referred to such committee).
 9. Presidential succession.
 10. Purchase of books and manuscripts and erection of 
monuments to the memory of individuals.
 11. Senate Library and statuary, art, and pictures in the 
Capitol and Senate Office Buildings.
 12. Services to the Senate, including the Senate 
restaurant.
 13. United States Capitol and congressional office 
buildings, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution 
(and the incorporation of similar institutions), and the 
Botanic Gardens.
 (2) Such committee shall also--
 (A) make a continuing study of the organization and 
 operation of the Congress of the United States and 
 shall recommend improvements in such organization and 
 operation with a view toward strengthening the 
 Congress, simplifying its operations, improving its 
 relationships with other branches of the United States 
 Government, and enabling it better to meet its 
 responsibilities under the Constitution of the United 
 States;
 (B) identify any court proceeding or action which, in 
 the opinion of the Committee, is of vital interest to 
 the Congress as a constitutionally established 
 institution of the Federal Government and call such 
 proceeding or action to the attention of the Senate; 
 and
 (C) \8\ develop, implement, and update as necessary a 
 strategy planning process and a strategic plan for the 
 functional and technical infrastructure support of the 
 Senate and provide oversight over plans developed by 
 Senate officers and others in accordance with the 
 strategic planning process.
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 (o)(1) \9\ Committee on Small Business, to which committee 
shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the Small 
Business Administration.
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 (2) Any proposed legislation reported by such committee 
which relates to matters other than the functions of the Small 
Business Administration shall, at the request of the chairman 
of any standing committee having jurisdiction over the subject 
matter extraneous to the functions of the Small Business 
Administration, be considered and reported by such standing 
committee prior to its consideration by the Senate; and 
likewise measures reported by other committees directly 
relating to the Small Business Administration shall, at the 
request of the chairman of the Committee on Small Business, be 
referred to the Committee on Small Business for its 
consideration of any portions of the measure dealing with the 
Small Business Administration, and be reported by this 
committee prior to its consideration by the Senate.
 (3) Such committee shall also study and survey by means of 
research and investigation all problems of American small 
business enterprises, and report thereon from time to time.
 (p) \10\ Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to which committee 
shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, 
petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the 
following subjects:
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25, 1981.
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 1. Compensation of veterans.
 2. Life insurance issued by the Government on account of 
service in the Armed Forces.
 3. National cemeteries.
 4. Pensions of all wars of the United States, general and 
special.
 5. Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.
 6. Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief.
 7. Veterans' hospitals, medical care and treatment of 
veterans.
 8. Veterans' measures generally.
 9. Vocational rehabilitation and education of veterans.
 2. \11\ Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of this 
rule, each of the following standing committees shall consist 
of the number of Senators set forth in the following table on 
the line on which the name of that committee appears:
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 \11\ As amended, S. Res. 13, 97-1, Jan. 5, 1981; S. Res. 365, 97-2, 
Apr. 20, 1982; S. Res. 380, 97-2, Apr. 27, 1982; S. Res. 6, 98-1, Jan. 
3, 1983; S. Res. 20, 98-1, Jan. 27, 1983; S. Res. 53, 98-1, Feb. 3, 
1983; S. Res. 338, 98-2, Feb. 9, 1984; S. Res. 74, 99-1, Feb. 21, 1985; 
S. Res. 14, 100-1, Jan. 6, 1987; S. Res. 211, 100-1, May 12, 1987; S. 
Res. 43, 101-1, Feb. 2, 1989; S. Res. 43, 102-1, Feb. 5, 1991; S. Res. 
135, 102-1, June 4, 1991; S. Res. 4, 103-1, Jan. 7, 1993; S. Res. 130, 
103-1, July 1, 1993; S. Res. 132, 103-1, July 15, 1993; S. Res. 14, 
104-1, Jan. 5, 1995; S. Res. 92, 104-1, Mar. 24, 1995; S. Res. 9, 105-
1, Jan. 9, 1997; HELP/Judiciary reversed pursuant to S. Res. 299, 106-
2, Apr. 27, 2000.

Committee: Members
 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry...................... 18 
 Appropriations............................................ 28 
 Armed Services............................................ 18 
 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs....................... 18 
 Commerce, Science, and Transportation..................... 20 
 Energy and Natural Resources.............................. 20 
 Environment and Public Works.............................. 18 
 Finance................................................... 20 
 Foreign Relations......................................... 18 
 Governmental Affairs...................................... 16 
 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.................... 18 
 Judiciary................................................. 18 

 3.(a) \12\ Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of 
this rule, each of the following standing committees shall 
consist of the number of Senators set forth in the following 
table on the line on which the name of that committee appears:
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 \12\ As amended, S. Res. 13, 97-1, Jan. 5, 1981; S. Res. 101, 97-1, 
Mar. 25, 1981; S. Res. 6, 98-1, Jan. 3, 1983; S. Res. 88, 99-1, Mar. 5, 
1985; S. Res. 14, 100-1, Jan. 6, 1987; S. Res. 211, 100-1, May 12, 
1987; S. Res. 43, 101-1, Feb. 2, 1989; S. Res. 85, 102-1, Mar. 19, 
1991; S. Res. 135, 102-1, June 4, 1991; S. Res. 18, 103-1, Jan. 21, 
1993; S. Res. 130, 103-1, July 1, 1993; S. Res. 34, 104-1, Jan. 6, 
1995; S. Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9, 1997.

Committee: Members
 Budget.................................................... 22 
 Rules and Administration.................................. 16 
 Veterans' Affairs......................................... 12 
 Small Business............................................ 18 

 (b) \13\ Each of the following committees and joint 
committees shall consist of the number of Senators (or Senate 
members, in the case of a joint committee) set forth in the 
following table on the line on which the name of that committee 
appears:
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 \13\ As amended, S. Res. 13, 97-1, Jan. 5, 1981; S. Res. 24, 97-1, 
Jan. 19, 1981; S. Res. 101, 97-1, Mar. 25, 1981; S. Res. 338, 98-2, 
Feb. 9, 1984; S. Res. 85, 102-1, Mar. 19, 1991; S. Res. 18, 103-1, Jan. 
21, 1993; S. Res. 34, 104-1, Jan. 6, 1995; S. Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9, 
1997.

Committee: Members
 Aging..................................................... 18 
 Intelligence.............................................. 19 
 Joint Economic Committee.................................. 10 

 (c) \14\ Each of the following committees and joint 
committees shall consist of the number of Senators (or Senate 
members, in the case of a joint committee) set forth in the 
following table on the line on which the name of that committee 
appears:
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 \14\ As amended, S. Res. 448, 96-2, Dec. 11, 1980; S. Res. 88, 99-
1, Mar. 5, 1985; S. Res. 14, 100-1, Jan. 6, 1987; S. Res. 100, 101-1, 
Apr. 11, 1989; S. Res. 44, 102-1, Feb. 5, 1991; S. Res.18, 103-1, Jan. 
21, 1993; S. Res. 34, 104-1, Jan. 6, 1995; S. Res. 92, 104-1, Mar. 24, 
1995; S. Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9, 1997.

Committee: Members
 Ethics.................................................... 6 
 Indian Affairs............................................ 14 
 Joint Committee on Taxation............................... 5 

 4.(a) Except as otherwise provided by this paragraph--
 (1) each Senator shall serve on two and no more committees 
listed in paragraph 2; and
 (2) each Senator may serve on only one committee listed in 
paragraph 3 (a) or (b).
 (b)(1) Each Senator may serve on not more than three 
subcommittees of each committee (other than the Committee on 
Appropriations) listed in paragraph 2 of which he is a member.
 (2) Each Senator may serve on not more than two 
subcommittees of a committee listed in paragraph 3 (a) or (b) 
of which he is a member.
 (3) Notwithstanding subparagraphs (1) and (2), a Senator 
serving as chairman or ranking minority member of a standing, 
select, or special committee of the Senate or joint committee 
of the Congress may serve ex officio, without vote, as a member 
of any subcommittee of such committee or joint committee.
 (4) No committee of the Senate may establish any subunit of 
that committee other than a subcommittee, unless the Senate by 
resolution has given permission therefor. For purposes of this 
subparagraph, any subunit of a joint committee shall be treated 
as a subcommittee.
 (c) By agreement entered into by the majority leader and 
the minority leader, the membership of one or more standing 
committees may be increased temporarily from time to time by 
such number or numbers as may be required to accord to the 
majority party a majority of the membership of all standing 
committees. When any such temporary increase is necessary to 
accord to the majority party a majority of the membership of 
all standing committees, members of the majority party in such 
number as may be required for that purpose may serve as members 
of three standing committees listed in paragraph 2. No such 
temporary increase in the membership of any standing committee 
under this subparagraph shall be continued in effect after the 
need therefor has ended. No standing committee may be increased 
in membership under this subparagraph by more than two members 
in excess of the number prescribed for that committee by 
paragraph 2 or 3(a).
 (d) A Senator may serve as a member of any joint committee 
of the Congress the Senate members of which are required by law 
to be appointed from a standing committee of the Senate of 
which he is a member, and service as a member of any such joint 
committee shall not be taken into account for purposes of 
subparagraph (a)(2).
 (e)(1) No Senator shall serve at any time as chairman of 
more than one standing, select, or special committee of the 
Senate or joint committee of the Congress, except that a 
Senator may serve as chairman of any joint committee of the 
Congress having jurisdiction with respect to a subject matter 
which is directly related to the jurisdiction of a standing 
committee of which he is chairman.
 (2) No Senator shall serve at any time as chairman of more 
than one subcommittee of each standing, select, or special 
committee of the Senate or joint committee of the Congress of 
which he is a member.
 (3) A Senator who is serving as the chairman of a committee 
listed in paragraph 2 may serve at any time as the chairman of 
only one subcommittee of all committees listed in paragraph 2 
of which he is a member and may serve at any time as the 
chairman of only one subcommittee of each committee listed in 
paragraph 3 (a) or (b) of which he is a member. A Senator who 
is serving as the chairman of a committee listed in paragraph 3 
(a) or (b) may not serve as the chairman of any subcommittee of 
that committee, and may serve at any time as the chairman of 
only one subcommittee of each committee listed in paragraph 2 
of which he is a member. Any other Senator may serve as the 
chairman of only one subcommittee of each committee listed in 
paragraph 2, 3(a), or 3(b) of which he is a member.
 (f) A Senator serving on the Committee on Rules and 
Administration may not serve on any joint committee of the 
Congress unless the Senate members thereof are required by law 
to be appointed from the Committee on Rules and Administration, 
or unless such Senator served on the Committee on Rules and 
Administration and the Joint Committee on Taxation on the last 
day of the Ninety-eighth Congress. \15\
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 (g) A Senator who on the day preceding the effective date 
of title I of the Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 
1977 was serving as the chairman or ranking minority member of 
the Committee on the District of Columbia or the Committee on 
Post Office and Civil Service may serve on the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs in addition to serving on two other 
standing committees listed in paragraph 2. At the request of 
any such Senator, he shall be appointed to serve on such 
committee but, while serving on such committee and two other 
standing committees listed in paragraph 2, he may not serve on 
any committee listed in paragraph 3 (a) or (b) other than the 
Committee on Rules and Administration. The preceding provisions 
of this subparagraph shall apply with respect to any Senator 
only so long as his service as a member of the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs is continuous after the date on which the 
appointment of the majority and minority members of the 
Committee on Governmental Affairs is initially completed.

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 \16\ Subparagraph (h) omitted here, pertains to committee service 
of Senators during the 103rd Congress. Provisions for the 104th 
Congress were established by S. Res. 13 and 17, Jan. 4, 1995; and S. 
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 RULE XXVI


 committee procedure


 1. \17\ Each standing committee, including any subcommittee 
of any such committee, is authorized to hold such hearings, to 
sit and act at such times and places during the sessions, 
recesses, and adjourned periods of the Senate, to require by 
subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the 
production of such correspondence, books, papers, and 
documents, to take such testimony and to make such expenditures 
out of the contingent fund of the Senate as may be authorized 
by resolutions of the Senate. Each such committee may make 
investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, may 
report such hearings as may be had by it, and may employ 
stenographic assistance at a cost not exceeding the amount 
prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration. \18\ 
The expenses of the committee shall be paid from the contingent 
fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman.
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 \17\ As amended, S. Res. 281, 96-2 Mar. 11, 1980, effective Feb. 
28, 1981.
 \18\ Pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 68c, the Committee on Rules and 
Administration issues ``Regulations Governing Rates Payable to 
Commercial Reporting Firms for Reporting Committee Hearings in the 
Senate.'' Copies of the regulations currently in effect may be obtained 
from the Committee.
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 2. \19\ Each committee \20\ shall adopt rules (not 
inconsistent with the Rules of the Senate) governing the 
procedure of such committee. The rules of each committee shall 
be published in the Congressional Record not later than March 1 
of the first year of each Congress, except that if any such 
committee is established on or after February 1 of a year, the 
rules of that committee during the year of establishment shall 
be published in the Congressional Record not later than sixty 
days after such establishment. Any amendment to the rules of a 
committee shall not take effect until the amendment is 
published in the Congressional Record.
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standing, select, and special committees unless otherwise specified.
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 3. Each standing committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations) shall fix regular weekly, biweekly, or monthly 
meeting days for the transaction of business before the 
committee and additional meetings may be called by the chairman 
as he may deem necessary. If at least three members of any such 
committee desire that a special meeting of the committee be 
called by the chairman, those members may file in the offices 
of the committee their written request to the chairman for that 
special meeting. Immediately upon the filing of the request, 
the clerk of the committee shall notify the chairman of the 
filing of the request. If, within three calendar days after the 
filing of the request, the chairman does not call the requested 
special meeting, to be held within seven calendar days after 
the filing of the request, a majority of the members of the 
committee may file in the offices of the committee their 
written notice that a special meeting of the committee will be 
held, specifying the date and hour of that special meeting. The 
committee shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon 
the filing of the notice, the clerk of the committee shall 
notify all members of the committee that such special meeting 
will be held and inform them of its date and hour. If the 
chairman of any such committee is not present at any regular, 
additional, or special meeting of the committee, the ranking 
member of the majority party on the committee who is present 
shall preside at that meeting.
 4. (a) Each committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) shall make 
public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter of 
any hearing to be conducted by the committee on any measure or 
matter at least one week before the commencement of that 
hearing unless the committee determines that there is good 
cause to begin such hearing at an earlier date.
 (b) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) 
shall require each witness who is to appear before the 
committee in any hearing to file with the clerk of the 
committee, at least one day before the date of the appearance 
of that witness, a written statement of his proposed testimony 
unless the committee chairman and the ranking minority member 
determine that there is good cause for noncompliance. If so 
requested by any committee, the staff of the committee shall 
prepare for the use of the members of the committee before each 
day of hearing before the committee a digest of the statements 
which have been so filed by witnesses who are to appear before 
the committee on that day.
 (c) After the conclusion of each day of hearing, if so 
requested by any committee, the staff shall prepare for the use 
of the members of the committee a summary of the testimony 
given before the committee on that day. After approval by the 
chairman and the ranking minority member of the committee, each 
such summary may be printed as a part of the committee hearings 
if such hearings are ordered by the committee to be printed.
 (d) Whenever any hearing is conducted by a committee 
(except the Committee on Appropriations) upon any measure or 
matter, the minority on the committee shall be entitled, upon 
request made by a majority of the minority members to the 
chairman before the completion of such hearing, to call 
witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect to 
the measure or matter during at least one day of hearing 
thereon.
 5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the rules, 
when the Senate is in session, no committee of the Senate or 
any subcommittee thereof may meet, without special leave, after 
the conclusion of the first two hours after the meeting of the 
Senate commenced and in no case after two o'clock postmeridian 
unless consent therefor has been obtained from the majority 
leader and the minority leader (or in the event of the absence 
of either of such leaders, from his designee). The prohibition 
contained in the preceding sentence shall not apply to the 
Committee on Appropriations or the Committee on the Budget. The 
majority leader or his designee shall announce to the Senate 
whenever consent has been given under this subparagraph and 
shall state the time and place of such meeting. The right to 
make such announcement of consent shall have the same priority 
as the filing of a cloture motion.
 (b) Each meeting of a committee, or any subcommittee 
thereof, including meetings to conduct hearings, shall be open 
to the public, except that a meeting or series of meetings by a 
committee or a subcommittee thereof on the same subject for a 
period of no more than fourteen calendar days may be closed to 
the public on a motion made and seconded to go into closed 
session to discuss only whether the matters enumerated in 
clauses (1) through (6) would require the meeting to be closed, 
followed immediately by a record vote in open session by a 
majority of the members of the committee or subcommittee when 
it is determined that the matters to be discussed or the 
testimony to be taken at such meeting or meetings--
 (1) will disclose matters necessary to be kept secret 
 in the interests of national defense or the 
 confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the 
 United States;
 (2) will relate solely to matters of committee staff 
 personnel or internal staff management or procedure;
 (3) will tend to charge an individual with crime or 
 misconduct, to disgrace or injure the professional 
 standing of an individual, or otherwise to expose an 
 individual to public contempt or obloquy, or will 
 represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of the privacy 
 of an individual;
 (4) will disclose the identity of any informer or law 
 enforcement agent or will disclose any information 
 relating to the investigation or prosecution of a 
 criminal offense that is required to be kept secret in 
 the interests of effective law enforcement;
 (5) will disclose information relating to the trade 
 secrets of financial or commercial information 
 pertaining specifically to a given person if--
 (A) an Act of Congress requires the information to be 
 kept confidential by Government officers and employees; 
 or
 (B) the information has been obtained by the Government 
 on a confidential basis, other than through an 
 application by such person for a specific Government 
 financial or other benefit, and is required to be kept 
 secret in order to prevent undue injury to the 
 competitive position of such person; or
 (6) may divulge matters required to be kept 
 confidential under other provisions of law or 
 Government regulations.
 (c) Whenever any hearing conducted by any such committee or 
subcommittee is open to the public, that hearing may be 
broadcast by radio or television, or both, under such rules as 
the committee or subcommittee may adopt.
 (d) Whenever disorder arises during a committee meeting 
that is open to the public, or any demonstration of approval or 
disapproval is indulged in by any person in attendance at any 
such meeting, it shall be the duty of the Chair to enforce 
order on his own initiative and without any point of order 
being made by a Senator. When the Chair finds it necessary to 
maintain order, he shall have the power to clear the room, and 
the committee may act in closed session for so long as there is 
doubt of the assurance of order.
 (e) Each committee shall prepare and keep a complete 
transcript or electronic recording adequate to fully record the 
proceeding of each meeting or conference whether or not such 
meeting or any part thereof is closed under this paragraph, 
unless a majority of its members vote to forgo such a record.
 6. Morning meetings of committees and subcommittees thereof 
shall be scheduled for one or both of the periods prescribed in 
this paragraph. The first period shall end at eleven o'clock 
antemeridian. The second period shall begin at eleven o'clock 
antemeridian and end at two o'clock postmeridian.
 7. (a)(1) Except as provided in this paragraph, each 
committee, and each subcommittee thereof is authorized to fix 
the number of its members (but not less than one-third of its 
entire membership) who shall constitute a quorum thereof for 
the transaction of such business as may be considered by said 
committee, except that no measure or matter or recommendation 
shall be reported from any committee unless a majority of the 
committee were physically present.
 (2) Each such committee, or subcommittee, is authorized to 
fix a lesser number than one-third of its entire membership who 
shall constitute a quorum thereof for the purpose of taking 
sworn testimony.
 (3) The vote of any committee to report a measure or matter 
shall require the concurrence of a majority of the members of 
the committee who are present. No vote of any member of any 
committee to report a measure or matter may be cast by proxy if 
rules adopted by such committee forbid the casting of votes for 
that purpose by proxy; however, proxies may not be voted when 
the absent committee member has not been informed of the matter 
on which he is being recorded and has not affirmatively 
requested that he be so recorded. Action by any committee in 
reporting any measure or matter in accordance with the 
requirements of this subparagraph shall constitute the 
ratification by the committee of all action theretofore taken 
by the committee with respect to that measure or matter, 
including votes taken upon the measure or matter or any 
amendment thereto, and no point of order shall lie with respect 
to that measure or matter on the ground that such previous 
action with respect thereto by such committee was not taken in 
compliance with such requirements.
 (b) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) 
shall keep a complete record of all committee action. Such 
record shall include a record of the votes on any question on 
which a record vote is demanded. The results of rollcall votes 
taken in any meeting of any committee upon any measure, or any 
amendment thereto, shall be announced in the committee report 
on that measure unless previously announced by the committee, 
and such announcement shall include a tabulation of the votes 
cast in favor of and the votes cast in opposition to each such 
measure and amendment by each member of the committee who was 
present at that meeting.
 (c) Whenever any committee by rollcall vote reports any 
measure or matter, the report of the committee upon such 
measure or matter shall include a tabulation of the votes cast 
by each member of the committee in favor of and in opposition 
to such measure or matter. Nothing contained in this 
subparagraph shall abrogate the power of any committee to adopt 
rules--
 (1) providing for proxy voting on all matters other 
 than the reporting of a measure or matter, or
 (2) providing in accordance with subparagraph (a) for 
 a lesser number as a quorum for any action other than 
 the reporting of a measure or matter.
 8. (a) In order to assist the Senate in--
 (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of the 
 application, administration, and execution of the laws 
 enacted by the Congress, and
 (2) its formulation, consideration, and enactment of 
 such modifications of or changes in those laws, and of 
 such additional legislation, as may be necessary or 
 appropriate,
each standing committee (except the Committees on 
Appropriations and the Budget), shall review and study, on a 
continuing basis the application, administration, and execution 
of those laws, or parts of laws, the subject matter of which is 
within the legislative jurisdiction of that committee. Such 
committees may carry out the required analysis, appraisal, and 
evaluation themselves, or by contract, or may require a 
Government agency to do so and furnish a report thereon to the 
Senate. Such committees may rely on such techniques as pilot 
testing, analysis of costs in comparison with benefits, or 
provision for evaluation after a defined period of time.
 (b) In each odd-numbered year, each such committee shall 
submit, not later than March 31, to the Senate, a report on the 
activities of that committee under this paragraph during the 
Congress ending at noon on January 3 of such year.
 9. (a) \21\ Except as provided in subparagraph (b), each 
committee shall report one authorization resolution each year 
authorizing the committee to make expenditures out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate to defray its expenses, including 
the compensation of members of its staff and agency 
contributions related to such compensation, during the period 
beginning on March 1 of such year and ending on the last day of 
February of the following year. Such annual authorization 
resolution shall be reported not later than January 31 of each 
year, except that, whenever the designation of members of 
standing committees of the Senate occurs during the first 
session of a Congress at a date later than January 20, such 
resolution may be reported at any time within thirty days after 
the date on which the designation of such members is completed. 
After the annual authorization resolution of a committee for a 
year has been agreed to, such committee may procure 
authorization to make additional expenditures out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate during that year only by 
reporting a supplemental authorization resolution. Each 
supplemental authorization resolution reported by a committee 
shall amend the annual authorization resolution of such 
committee for that year and shall be accompanied by a report 
specifying with particularity the purpose for which such 
authorization is sought and the reason why such authorization 
could not have been sought at the time of the submission by 
such committee of its annual authorization resolution for that 
year.
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 (b) In lieu of the procedure provided in subparagraph (a), 
the Committee on Rules and Administration may--
 (1) direct each committee to report an authorization 
 resolution for a two year budget period beginning on 
 March 1 of the first session of a Congress; and
 (2) report one authorization resolution containing 
 more than one committee authorization resolution for a 
 one year or two year budget period.
 10. (a) All committee hearings, records, data, charts, and 
files shall be kept separate and distinct from the 
congressional office records of the Member serving as chairman 
of the committee; and such records shall be the property of the 
Senate and all members of the committee and the Senate shall 
have access to such records. Each committee is authorized to 
have printed and bound such testimony and other data presented 
at hearings held by the committee.
 (b) It shall be the duty of the chairman of each committee 
to report or cause to be reported promptly to the Senate any 
measure approved by his committee and to take or cause to be 
taken necessary steps to bring the matter to a vote. In any 
event, the report of any committee upon a measure which has 
been approved by the committee shall be filed within seven 
calendar days (exclusive of days on which the Senate is not in 
session) after the day on which there has been filed with the 
clerk of the committee a written and signed request of a 
majority of the committee for the reporting of that measure. 
Upon the filing of any such request, the clerk of the committee 
shall transmit immediately to the chairman of the committee 
notice of the filing of that request. This subparagraph does 
not apply to the Committee on Appropriations.
 (c) If at the time of approval of a measure or matter by 
any committee (except for the Committee on Appropriations), any 
member of the committee gives notice of intention to file 
supplemental, minority, or additional views, that member shall 
be entitled to not less than three calendar days in which to 
file such views, in writing, with the clerk of the committee. 
All such views so filed by one or more members of the committee 
shall be included within, and shall be a part of, the report 
filed by the committee with respect to that measure or matter. 
The report of the committee upon that measure or matter shall 
be printed in a single volume which--
 (1) shall include all supplemental, minority, or 
 additional views which have been submitted by the time 
 of the filing of the report, and
 (2) shall bear upon its cover a recital that 
 supplemental, minority, or additional views are 
 included as part of the report. This subparagraph does 
 not preclude--
 (A) the immediate filing and printing of a committee 
 report unless timely request for the opportunity to 
 file supplemental, minority, or additional views has 
 been made as provided by this subparagraph; or
 (B) the filing by any such committee of any supplemental 
 report upon any measure or matter which may be required 
 for the correction of any technical error in a previous 
 report made by that committee upon that measure or 
 matter.
 11. (a) The report accompanying each bill or joint 
resolution of a public character reported by any committee 
(except the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on 
the Budget) shall contain--
 (1) an estimate, made by such committee, of the costs 
 which would be incurred in carrying out such bill or 
 joint resolution in the fiscal year in which it is 
 reported and in each of the five fiscal years following 
 such fiscal year (or for the authorized duration of any 
 program authorized by such bill or joint resolution, if 
 less than five years), except that, in the case of 
 measures affecting the revenues, such reports shall 
 require only an estimate of the gain or loss in 
 revenues for a one-year period; and
 (2) a comparison of the estimate of costs described 
 in subparagraph (1) made by such committee with any 
 estimate of costs made by any Federal agency; or
 (3) in lieu of such estimate or comparison, or both, 
 a statement of the reasons why compliance by the 
 committee with the requirements of subparagraph (1) or 
 (2), or both, is impracticable.
 (b) Each such report (except those by the Committee on 
Appropriations) shall also contain--
 (1) an evaluation, made by such committee, of the 
 regulatory impact which would be incurred in carrying 
 out the bill or joint resolution. The evaluation shall 
 include (A) an estimate of the numbers of individuals 
 and businesses who would be regulated and a 
 determination of the groups and classes of such 
 individuals and businesses, (B) a determination of the 
 economic impact of such regulation on the individuals, 
 consumers, and businesses affected, (C) a determination 
 of the impact on the personal privacy of the 
 individuals affected, and (D) a determination of the 
 amount of additional paperwork that will result from 
 the regulations to be promulgated pursuant to the bill 
 or joint resolution, which determination may include, 
 but need not be limited to, estimates of the amount of 
 time and financial costs required of affected parties, 
 showing whether the effects of the bill or joint 
 resolution could be substantial, as well as reasonable 
 estimates of the recordkeeping requirements that may be 
 associated with the bill or joint resolution; or
 (2) in lieu of such evaluation, a statement of the 
 reasons why compliance by the committee with the 
 requirements of clause (1) is impracticable.
 (c) It shall not be in order for the Senate to consider any 
such bill or joint resolution if the report of the committee on 
such bill or joint resolution does not comply with the 
provisions of subparagraphs (a) and (b) on the objection of any 
Senator.
 12. Whenever a committee reports a bill or a joint 
resolution repealing or amending any statute or part thereof it 
shall make a report thereon and shall include in such report or 
in an accompanying document (to be prepared by the staff of 
such committee) (a) the text of the statute or part thereof 
which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a comparative print 
of that part of the bill or joint resolution making the 
amendment and of the statute or part thereof proposed to be 
amended, showing by stricken-through type and italics, parallel 
columns, or other appropriate typographical devices the 
omissions and insertions which would be made by the bill or 
joint resolution if enacted in the form recommended by the 
committee. This paragraph shall not apply to any such report in 
which it is stated that, in the opinion of the committee, it is 
necessary to dispense with the requirements of this subsection 
to expedite the business of the Senate.
 13.(a) Each committee (except the Committee on 
Appropriations) which has legislative jurisdiction shall, in 
its consideration of all bills and joint resolutions of a 
public character within its jurisdiction, endeavor to insure 
that--
 (1) all continuing programs of the Federal Government 
 and of the government of the District of Columbia, 
 within the jurisdiction of such committee or joint 
 committee, are designed; and
 (2) all continuing activities of Federal agencies, 
 within the jurisdiction of such committee or joint 
 committee, are carried on;
so that, to the extent consistent with the nature, 
requirements, and objectives of those programs and activities, 
appropriations therefor will be made annually.
 (b) Each committee (except the Committee on Appropriations) 
shall with respect to any continuing program within its 
jurisdiction for which appropriations are not made annually, 
review such program, from time to time, in order to ascertain 
whether such program could be modified so that appropriations 
therefor would be made annually.

 RULE XXVII


 committee staff


 1. \22\ Staff members appointed to assist minority members 
of committees pursuant to authority of a resolution described 
in paragraph 9 of rule XXVI or other Senate resolution shall be 
accorded equitable treatment with respect to the fixing of 
salary rates, the assignment of facilities, and the 
accessibility of committee records.
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 \22\ Pursuant to S. Res. 281, 96-2, Mar. 11, 1980, effective Feb. 
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subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of paragraph 2 were renumbered as 
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 2. The minority shall receive fair consideration in the 
appointment of staff personnel pursuant to authority of a 
resolution described in paragraph 9 of rule XXVI.
 3. The staffs of committees (including personnel appointed 
pursuant to authority of a resolution described in paragraph 9 
of rule XXVI or other Senate resolution) should reflect the 
relative number of majority and minority members of committees. 
A majority of the minority members of any committee may, by 
resolution, request that at least one-third of all funds of the 
committee for personnel (other than those funds determined by 
the chairman and ranking minority member to be allocated for 
the administrative and clerical functions of the committee as a 
whole) be allocated to the minority members of such committee 
for compensation of minority staff as the minority members may 
decide. The committee shall thereafter adjust its budget to 
comply with such resolution. Such adjustment shall be equitably 
made over a four-year period, commencing July 1, 1977, with not 
less than one-half being made in two years. Upon request by a 
majority of the minority members of any committee by 
resolution, proportionate space, equipment, and facilities 
shall be provided for such minority staff.
 4. No committee shall appoint to its staff any experts or 
other personnel detailed or assigned from any department or 
agency of the Government, except with the written permission of 
the Committee on Rules and Administration.

 RULE XXVIII


 conference committees; reports; open meetings


 1. The presentation of reports of committees of conference 
shall always be in order when available on each Senator's desk, 
except when the Journal is being read or a question of order or 
a motion to adjourn is pending, or while the Senate is voting 
or ascertaining the presence of a quorum; and when received the 
question of proceeding to the consideration of the report, if 
raised, shall be immediately put, and shall be determined 
without debate.
 2. Conferees shall not insert in their report matter not 
committed to them by either House, nor shall they strike from 
the bill matter agreed to by both Houses. If new matter is 
inserted in the report, or if matter which was agreed to by 
both Houses is stricken from the bill, a point of order may be 
made against the report, and if the point of order is 
sustained, the report is rejected or shall be recommitted to 
the committee of conference if the House of Representatives has 
not already acted thereon.
 3. (a) In any case in which a disagreement to an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute has been referred to conferees, 
it shall be in order for the conferees to report a substitute 
on the same subject matter; but they may not include in the 
report matter not committed to them by either House. They may, 
however, include in their report in any such case matter which 
is a germane modification of subjects in disagreement.
 (b) In any case in which the conferees violate subparagraph 
(a), the conference report shall be subject to a point of 
order.
 4. Each report made by a committee of conference to the 
Senate shall be printed as a report of the Senate. As so 
printed, such report shall be accompanied by an explanatory 
statement prepared jointly by the conferees on the part of the 
House and the conferees on the part of the Senate. Such 
statement shall be sufficiently detailed and explicit to inform 
the Senate as to the effect which the amendments or 
propositions contained in such report will have upon the 
measure to which those amendments or propositions relate.
 5. If time for debate in the consideration of any report of 
a committee of conference upon the floor of the Senate is 
limited, the time allotted for debate shall be equally divided 
between the majority party and the minority party.
 6. Each conference committee between the Senate and the 
House of Representatives shall be open to the public except 
when managers of either the Senate or the House of 
Representatives in open session determine by a rollcall vote of 
a majority of those managers present, that all or part of the 
remainder of the meeting on the day of the vote shall be closed 
to the public.

 RULE XXIX


 executive sessions


 1. When the President of the United States shall meet the 
Senate in the Senate Chamber for the consideration of Executive 
business, he shall have a seat on the right of the Presiding 
Officer. When the Senate shall be convened by the President of 
the United States to any other place, the Presiding Officer of 
the Senate and the Senators shall attend at the place 
appointed, with the necessary officers of the Senate.
 2. When acting upon confidential or Executive business, 
unless the same shall be considered in open Executive session, 
the Senate Chamber shall be cleared of all persons except the 
Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, the Principal Legislative 
Clerk, the Parliamentarian, the Executive Clerk, the Minute and 
Journal Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, the Secretaries to the 
Majority and the Minority, and such other officers as the 
Presiding Officer shall think necessary; and all such officers 
shall be sworn to secrecy.
 3. All confidential communications made by the President of 
the United States to the Senate shall be by the Senators and 
the officers of the Senate kept secret; and all treaties which 
may be laid before the Senate, and all remarks, votes, and 
proceedings thereon shall also be kept secret, until the Senate 
shall, by their resolution, take off the injunction of secrecy.
 4. Whenever the injunction of secrecy shall be removed from 
any part of the proceedings of the Senate in closed Executive 
or legislative session, the order of the Senate removing the 
same shall be entered in the Legislative Journal as well as in 
the Executive Journal, and shall be published in the 
Congressional Record under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Senate.
 5. \23\ Any Senator, officer, or employee of the Senate who 
shall disclose the secret or confidential business or 
proceedings of the Senate, including the business and 
proceedings of the committees, subcommittees, and offices of 
the Senate, shall be liable, if a Senator, to suffer expulsion 
from the body; and if an officer or employee, to dismissal from 
the service of the Senate, and to punishment for contempt.
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 6. Whenever, by the request of the Senate or any committee 
thereof, any documents or papers shall be communicated to the 
Senate by the President or the head of any department relating 
to any matter pending in the Senate, the proceedings in regard 
to which are secret or confidential under the rules, said 
documents and papers shall be considered as confidential, and 
shall not be disclosed without leave of the Senate.

 RULE XXX


 executive session--proceedings on treaties


 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.
 (b) \24\ 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.
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 (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.
 (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.
 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 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.

 RULE XXXI


 executive session--proceedings on nominations


 1. When nominations shall be made by the President of the 
United States to the Senate, they shall, unless otherwise 
ordered, be referred to appropriate committees; and the final 
question on every nomination shall be, ``Will the Senate advise 
and consent to this nomination?'' which question shall not be 
put on the same day on which the nomination is received, nor on 
the day on which it may be reported by a committee, unless by 
unanimous consent.
 2. All business in the Senate shall be transacted in open 
session, unless the Senate as provided in rule XXI by a 
majority vote shall determine that a particular nomination, 
treaty, or other matter shall be considered in closed executive 
session, in which case all subsequent proceedings with respect 
to said nomination, treaty, or other matter shall be kept 
secret: Provided, That the injunction of secrecy as to the 
whole or any part of proceedings in closed executive session 
may be removed on motion adopted by a majority vote of the 
Senate in closed executive session: Provided further, That any 
Senator may make public his vote in closed executive session.
 3. When a nomination is confirmed or rejected, any Senator 
voting in the majority may move for a reconsideration on the 
same day on which the vote was taken, or on either of the next 
two days of actual executive session of the Senate; but if a 
notification of the confirmation or rejection of a nomination 
shall have been sent to the President before the expiration of 
the time within which a motion to reconsider may be made, the 
motion to reconsider shall be accompanied by a motion to 
request the President to return such notification to the 
Senate. Any motion to reconsider the vote on a nomination may 
be laid on the table without prejudice to the nomination, and 
shall be a final disposition of such motion.
 4. Nominations confirmed or rejected by the Senate shall 
not be returned by the Secretary to the President until the 
expiration of the time limited for making a motion to 
reconsider the same, or while a motion to reconsider is pending 
unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.
 5. When the Senate shall adjourn or take a recess for more 
than thirty days, all motions to reconsider a vote upon a 
nomination which has been confirmed or rejected by the Senate, 
which shall be pending at the time of taking such adjournment 
or recess, shall fall; and the Secretary shall return all such 
nominations to the President as confirmed or rejected by the 
Senate, as the case may be.
 6. Nominations neither confirmed nor rejected during the 
session at which they are made shall not be acted upon at any 
succeeding session without being again made to the Senate by 
the President; and if the Senate shall adjourn or take a recess 
for more than thirty days, all nominations pending and not 
finally acted upon at the time of taking such adjournment or 
recess shall be returned by the Secretary to the President, and 
shall not again be considered unless they shall again be made 
to the Senate by the President.
 7. (a) The Official Reporters shall be furnished with a 
list of nominations to office after the proceedings of the day 
on which they are received, and a like list of all 
confirmations and rejections.
 (b) All nominations to office shall be prepared for the 
printer by the Official Reporter, and printed in the 
Congressional Record, after the proceedings of the day in which 
they are received, also nominations recalled, and confirmed.
 (c) The Secretary shall furnish to the press, and to the 
public upon request, the names of nominees confirmed or 
rejected on the day on which a final vote shall be had, except 
when otherwise ordered by the Senate.

 RULE XXXII


 the president furnished with copies of records of executive sessions


 The President of the United States shall, from time to 
time, be furnished with an authenticated transcript of the 
public executive records of the Senate, but no further extract 
from the Executive Journal shall be furnished by the Secretary, 
except by special order of the Senate; and no paper, except 
original treaties transmitted to the Senate by the President of 
the United States, and finally acted upon by the Senate, shall 
be delivered from the office of the Secretary without an order 
of the Senate for that purpose.

 RULE XXXIII


 senate chamber--senate wing of the capitol


 1. The Senate Chamber shall not be granted for any other 
purpose than for the use of the Senate; no smoking shall be 
permitted at any time on the floor of the Senate, or lighted 
cigars, cigarettes, or pipes be brought into the Chamber.
 2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Rules and 
Administration to make all rules and regulations respecting 
such parts of the Capitol, its passages and galleries, 
including the restaurant and the Senate Office Buildings, as 
are or may be set apart for the use of the Senate and its 
officers, to be enforced under the direction of the Presiding 
Officer. The Committee shall make such regulations respecting 
the reporters' galleries of the Senate, together with the 
adjoining rooms and facilities, as will confine their occupancy 
and use to bona fide reporters of newspapers and periodicals, 
and of news or press associations for daily news dissemination 
through radio, television, wires, and cables, and similar media 
of transmission. These regulations shall so provide for the use 
of such space and facilities as fairly to distribute their use 
to all such media of news dissemination.

 RULE XXXIV


 public financial disclosure


 1. For purposes of this rule, the provisions of title I of 
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-521) \25\ 
shall be deemed to be a rule of the Senate as it pertains to 
Members, officers, and employees of the Senate.
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 2. \26\ (a) The Select Committee on Ethics shall transmit a 
copy of each report filed with it under title I of the Ethics 
in Government Act of 1978 (other than a report filed by a 
Member of Congress) to the head of the employing office of the 
individual filing the report.
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 (b) For purposes of this rule, the head of the employing 
office shall be--
 (1) in the case of an employee of a Member, the 
 Member by whom that person is employed;
 (2) in the case of an employee of a Committee, the 
 chairman and ranking minority member of such Committee;
 (3) in the case of an employee on the leadership 
 staff, the Member of the leadership on whose staff such 
 person serves; and
 (4) in the case of any other employee of the 
 legislative branch, the head of the office in which 
 such individual serves.
 3. \27\ In addition to the requirements of paragraph 1, 
Members, officers, and employees of the Senate shall include in 
each report filed under paragraph 1 \28\ the following 
additional information:
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 \27\ Pursuant to S. Res. 158, 104-1, July 28, 1995, paragraphs 3 
and 4 were added effective Jan. 1, 1996.
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 (a) For purposes of section 102(a)(1)(B) of the Ethics in 
Government Act of 1978 additional categories of income as 
follows:
 (1) greater than $1,000,000 but not more than 
 $5,000,000, or
 (2) greater than $5,000,000.
 (b) for purposes of section 102(d)(1) of the Ethics in 
Government Act of 1978 additional categories of value \29\ as 
follows:
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 (1) greater than $1,000,000 but not more than 
 $5,000,000;
 (2) greater than $5,000,000 but not more than 
 $25,000,000;
 (3) greater than $25,000,000 but not more than 
 $50,000,000; and
 (4) greater than $50,000,000.
 (c) For purposes of this paragraph and section 102 of the 
Ethics in Government Act of 1978, additional categories with 
amounts or values greater than $1,000,000 set forth in section 
102(a)(1)(B) and 102(d)(1) shall apply to the income, assets, 
or liabilities of spouses and dependent children only if the 
income, assets, or liabilities are held jointly with the 
reporting individual. All other income, assets, or liabilities 
of the spouse or dependent children required to be reported 
under section 102 and this paragraph in an amount or value 
greater than $1,000,000 shall be categorized only as an amount 
or value greater than $1,000,000.
 4. \30\ In addition to the requirements of paragraph 1, 
Members, officers, and employees of the Senate shall include in 
each report filed under paragraph 1 \31\ an additional 
statement under section 102(a) of the Ethics in Government Act 
of 1978 listing the category of the total cash value of any 
interest of the reporting individual in a qualified blind trust 
as provided in section 102(d)(1) of the Ethics in Government 
Act of 1978, unless the trust instrument was executed prior to 
July 24, 1995 and precludes the beneficiary from receiving 
information on the total cash value of any interest in the 
qualified blind trust.
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 \30\ This subsection applies with respect to reports filed under 
title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 for calendar year 1996 
and thereafter.
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 RULE XXXV


 gifts \32\
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 1. (a)(1) No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate 
shall knowingly accept a gift except as provided in this rule.
 (2) A Member, officer, or employee may accept a gift (other 
than cash or cash equivalent) which the Member, officer, or 
employee reasonably and in good faith believes to have a value 
of less than $50, and a cumulative value from one source during 
a calendar year of less than $100. No gift with a value below 
$10 shall count toward the $100 annual limit. No formal 
recordkeeping is required by this paragraph, but a Member, 
officer, or employee shall make a good faith effort to comply 
with this paragraph.
 (b)(1) For the purpose of this rule, the term ``gift'' 
means any gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, 
hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having monetary 
value. The term includes gifts of services, training, 
transportation, lodging, and meals, whether provided in kind, 
by purchase of a ticket, payment in advance, or reimbursement 
after the expense has been incurred.
 (2)(A) A gift to a family member of a Member, officer, or 
employee, or a gift to any other individual based on that 
individual's relationship with the Member, officer, or 
employee, shall be considered a gift to the Member, officer, or 
employee if it is given with the knowledge and acquiescence of 
the Member, officer, or employee and the Member, officer, or 
employee has reason to believe the gift was given because of 
the official position of the Member, officer, or employee.
 (B) If food or refreshment is provided at the same time and 
place to both a Member, officer, or employee and the spouse or 
dependent thereof, only the food or refreshment provided to the 
Member, officer, or employee shall be treated as a gift for 
purposes of this rule.
 (c) The restrictions in subparagraph (a) shall not apply to 
the following:
 (1) Anything for which the Member, officer, or employee 
pays the market value, or does not use and promptly returns to 
the donor.
 (2) A contribution, as defined in the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) \33\ that is 
lawfully made under that Act, or attendance at a fundraising 
event sponsored by a political organization described in 
section 527(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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Sec. 399.8.
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 (3) A gift from a relative as described in section 109(16) 
\34\ of title I of the Ethics Reform of 1989 (5 U.S.C. App. 6).
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 \34\ Renumbered as Sec. 109(16) of the Ethics Reform Act of 1989. 
[Pub.L. 101-194; 5 U.S.C. App. 6; Senate Manual Sec. 439.9; S. Res. 
198, 104-1, Dec. 7, 1995 effected technical change to Standing Rules 
designation.
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 (4)(A) Anything, including personal hospitality, \35\ 
provided by an individual on the basis of a personal friendship 
unless the Member, officer, or employee has reason to believe 
that, under the circumstances, the gift was provided because of 
the official position of the Member, officer, or employee and 
not because of the personal friendship.
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 (B) In determining whether a gift is provided on the basis 
of personal friendship, the Member, officer, or employee shall 
consider the circumstances under which the gift was offered, 
such as:
 (i) The history of the relationship between the 
 individual giving the gift and the recipient of the 
 gift, including any previous exchange of gifts between 
 such individuals.
 (ii) Whether to the actual knowledge of the Member, 
 officer, or employee the individual who gave the gift 
 personally paid for the gift or sought a tax deduction 
 or business reimbursement for the gift.
 (iii) Whether to the actual knowledge of the Member, 
 officer, or employee the individual who gave the gift 
 also at the same time gave the same or similar gifts to 
 other Members, officers, or employees.
 (5) A contribution or other payment to a legal expense fund 
established for the benefit of a Member, officer, or employee, 
that is otherwise lawfully made, subject to the disclosure 
requirements of the Select Committee on Ethics, except as 
provided in paragraph 3(c).
 (6) Any gift from another Member, officer, or employee of 
the Senate or the House of Representatives.
 (7) Food, refreshments, lodging, and other benefits--
 (A) resulting from the outside business or employment 
 activities (or other outside activities that are not 
 connected to the duties of the Member, officer, or 
 employee as an officeholder) of the Member, officer, or 
 employee, or the spouse of the Member, officer, or 
 employee, if such benefits have not been offered or 
 enhanced because of the official position of the 
 Member, officer, or employee and are customarily 
 provided to others in similar circumstances;
 (B) customarily provided by a prospective employer in 
 connection with bona fide employment discussions; or
 (C) provided by a political organization described in 
 section 527(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in 
 connection with a fundraising or campaign event 
 sponsored by such an organization.
 (8) Pension and other benefits resulting from continued 
participation in an employee welfare and benefits plan 
maintained by a former employer.
 (9) Informational materials that are sent to the office of 
the Member, officer, or employee in the form of books, 
articles, periodicals, other written materials, audiotapes, 
videotapes, or other forms of communication.
 (10) Awards or prizes which are given to competitors in 
contests or events open to the public, including random 
drawings.
 (11) Honorary degrees (and associated travel, food, 
refreshments, and entertainment) and other bona fide, 
nonmonetary awards presented in recognition of public service 
(and associated food, refreshments, and entertainment provided 
in the presentation of such degrees and awards).
 (12) Donations of products from the State that the Member 
represents that are intended primarily for promotional 
purposes, such as display or free distribution, and are of 
minimal value to any individual recipient.
 (13) Training (including food and refreshments furnished to 
all attendees as an integral part of the training) provided to 
a Member, officer, or employee, if such training is in the 
interest of the Senate.
 (14) Bequests, inheritances, and other transfers at death.
 (15) Any item, the receipt of which is authorized by the 
Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act, the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act, or any other statute.
 (16) Anything which is paid for by the Federal Government, 
by a State or local government, or secured by the Government 
under a Government contract.
 (17) A gift of personal hospitality (as defined in section 
109(14) of the Ethics in Government Act \36\) of an individual 
other than a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign 
principal.
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 (18) Free attendance at a widely attended event permitted 
pursuant to subparagraph (d).
 (19) Opportunities and benefits which are--
 (A) available to the public or to a class consisting 
 of all Federal employees, whether or not restricted on 
 the basis of geographic consideration;
 (B) offered to members of a group or class in which 
 membership is unrelated to congressional employment;
 (C) offered to members of an organization, such as an 
 employees' association or congressional credit union, 
 in which membership is related to congressional 
 employment and similar opportunities are available to 
 large segments of the public through organizations of 
 similar size;
 (D) offered to any group or class that is not defined 
 in a manner that specifically discriminates among 
 Government employees on the basis of branch of 
 Government or type of responsibility, or on a basis 
 that favors those of higher rank or rate of pay;
 (E) in the form of loans from banks and other 
 financial institutions on terms generally available to 
 the public; or
 (F) in the form of reduced membership or other fees 
 for participation in organization activities offered to 
 all Government employees by professional organizations 
 if the only restrictions on membership relate to 
 professional qualifications.
 (20) A plaque, trophy, or other item that is substantially 
commemorative in nature and which is intended solely for 
presentation.
 (21) Anything for which, in an unusual case, a waiver is 
granted by the Select Committee on Ethics.
 (22) Food or refreshments of a nominal value offered other 
than as a part of a meal.
 (23) An item of little intrinsic value such as a greeting 
card, baseball cap, or a T-shirt.
 (d)(1) A Member, officer, or employee may accept an offer 
of free attendance at a widely attended convention, conference, 
symposium, forum, panel discussion, dinner, viewing, reception, 
or similar event, provided by the sponsor of the event, if--
 (A) the Member, officer, or employee participates in 
 the event as a speaker or a panel participant, by 
 presenting information related to Congress or matters 
 before Congress, or by performing a ceremonial function 
 appropriate to the Member's, officer's, or employee's 
 official position; or
 (B) attendance at the event is appropriate to the 
 performance of the official duties or representative 
 function of the Member, officer, or employee.
 (2) A Member, officer, or employee who attends an event 
described in clause (1) may accept a sponsor's unsolicited 
offer of free attendance at the event for an accompanying 
individual if others in attendance will generally be similarly 
accompanied or if such attendance is appropriate to assist in 
the representation of the Senate.
 (3) A Member, officer, or employee, or the spouse or 
dependent thereof, may accept a sponsor's unsolicited offer of 
free attendance at a charity event, except that reimbursement 
for transportation and lodging may not be accepted in 
connection with an event that does not meet the standards 
provided in paragraph 2.
 (4) For purposes of this paragraph, the term ``free 
attendance'' may include waiver of all or part of a conference 
or other fee, the provision of local transportation, or the 
provision of food, refreshments, entertainment, and 
instructional materials furnished to all attendees as an 
integral part of the event. The term does not include 
entertainment collateral to the event, nor does it include food 
or refreshments taken other than in a group setting with all or 
substantially all other attendees.
 (e) No Member, officer, or employee may accept a gift the 
value of which exceeds $250 on the basis of the personal 
friendship exception in subparagraph (c)(4) unless the Select 
Committee on Ethics issues a written determination that such 
exception applies. No determination under this subparagraph is 
required for gifts given on the basis of the family 
relationship exception.
 (f) When it is not practicable to return a tangible item 
because it is perishable, the item may, at the discretion of 
the recipient, be given to an appropriate charity or destroyed.
 2. (a)(1) A reimbursement (including payment in kind) to a 
Member, officer, or employee from an individual other than a 
registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal for 
necessary transportation, lodging and related expenses for 
travel to a meeting, speaking engagement, factfinding trip or 
similar event in connection with the duties of the Member, 
officer, or employee as an officeholder shall be deemed to be a 
reimbursement to the Senate and not a gift prohibited by this 
rule, if the Member, officer, or employee--
 (A) in the case of an employee, receives advance 
 authorization, from the Member or officer under whose 
 direct supervision the employee works, to accept 
 reimbursement, and
 (B) discloses the expenses reimbursed or to be 
 reimbursed and the authorization to the Secretary of 
 the Senate within 30 days after the travel is 
 completed.
 (2) For purposes of clause (1), events, the activities of 
which are substantially recreational in nature, shall not be 
considered to be in connection with the duties of a Member, 
officer, or employee as an officeholder.
 (b) Each advance authorization to accept reimbursement 
shall be signed by the Member or officer under whose direct 
supervision the employee works and shall include--
 (1) the name of the employee;
 (2) the name of the person who will make the 
 reimbursement;
 (3) the time, place, and purpose of the travel; and
 (4) a determination that the travel is in connection 
 with the duties of the employee as an officeholder and 
 would not create the appearance that the employee is 
 using public office for private gain.
 (c) Each disclosure made under subparagraph (a)(1) of 
expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed shall be signed by the 
Member or officer (in the case of travel by that Member or 
officer) or by the Member or officer under whose direct 
supervision the employee works (in the case of travel by an 
employee) and shall include--
 (1) a good faith estimate of total transportation 
 expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
 (2) a good faith estimate of total lodging expenses 
 reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
 (3) a good faith estimate of total meal expenses 
 reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
 (4) a good faith estimate of the total of other 
 expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
 (5) a determination that all such expenses are 
 necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses 
 as defined in this paragraph; and
 (6) in the case of a reimbursement to a Member or 
 officer, a determination that the travel was in 
 connection with the duties of the Member or officer as 
 an officeholder and would not create the appearance 
 that the Member or officer is using public office for 
 private gain.
 (d) For the purposes of this paragraph, the term 
``necessary transportation, lodging, and related expenses''--
 (1) includes reasonable expenses that are necessary 
 for travel for a period not exceeding 3 days exclusive 
 of travel time within the United States or 7 days 
 exclusive of travel time outside of the United States 
 unless approved in advance by the Select Committee on 
 Ethics;
 (2) is limited to reasonable expenditures for 
 transportation, lodging, conference fees and materials, 
 and food and refreshments, including reimbursement for 
 necessary transportation, whether or not such 
 transportation occurs within the periods described in 
 clause (1);
 (3) does not include expenditures for recreational 
 activities, nor does it include entertainment other 
 than that provided to all attendees as an integral part 
 of the event, except for activities or entertainment 
 otherwise permissible under this rule; and
 (4) may include travel expenses incurred on behalf of 
 either the spouse or a child of the Member, officer, or 
 employee, subject to a determination signed by the 
 Member or officer (or in the case of an employee, the 
 Member or officer under whose direct supervision the 
 employee works) that the attendance of the spouse or 
 child is appropriate to assist in the representation of 
 the Senate.
 (e) The Secretary of the Senate shall make available to the 
public all advance authorizations and disclosures of 
reimbursement filed pursuant to subparagraph (a) as soon as 
possible after they are received.
 3. A gift prohibited by paragraph 1(a) includes the 
following:
 (a) Anything provided by a registered lobbyist or an agent 
of a foreign principal to an entity that is maintained or 
controlled by a Member, officer, or employee.
 (b) A charitable contribution (as defined in section 170(c) 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by a registered 
lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal on the basis of a 
designation, recommendation, or other specification of a 
Member, officer, or employee (not including a mass mailing or 
other solicitation directed to a broad category of persons or 
entities), other than a charitable contribution permitted by 
paragraph 4.
 (c) A contribution or other payment by a registered 
lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal to a legal expense 
fund established for the benefit of a Member, officer, or 
employee.
 (d) A financial contribution or expenditure made by a 
registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal relating 
to a conference, retreat, or similar event, sponsored by or 
affiliated with an official congressional organization, for or 
on behalf of Members, officers, or employees.
 4. (a) A charitable contribution (as defined in section 
170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by a 
registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal in lieu 
of an honorarium to a Member, officer, or employee shall not be 
considered a gift under this rule if it is reported as provided 
in subparagraph (b).
 (b) A Member, officer, or employee who designates or 
recommends a contribution to a charitable organization in lieu 
of honoraria described in subparagraph (a) shall report within 
30 days after such designation or recommendation to the 
Secretary of the Senate--
 (1) the name and address of the registered lobbyist 
 who is making the contribution in lieu of honoraria;
 (2) the date and amount of the contribution; and
 (3) the name and address of the charitable 
 organization designated or recommended by the Member.
 The Secretary of the Senate shall make public information 
received pursuant to this subparagraph as soon as possible 
after it is received.
 5. For purposes of this rule--
 (a) the term ``registered lobbyist'' means a lobbyist 
 registered under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act 
 or any successor statute; and
 (b) the term ``agent of a foreign principal'' means 
 an agent of a foreign principal registered under the 
 Foreign Agents Registration Act.
 6. All the provisions of this rule shall be interpreted and 
enforced solely by the Select Committee on Ethics. The Select 
Committee on Ethics is authorized to issue guidance on any 
matter contained in this rule.

 RULE XXXVI


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 \37\ Previous provisions of rule XXXVI repealed by S. Res. 512, 97-
2, Dec. 14, 1982, effective Jan. 1. 1983. New language established by 
S. Res. 192, 102-1, Oct. 31, 1991, effective Aug. 14, 1991. [5 U.S.C. 
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 For purposes of this rule, the provisions of section 501 of 
the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App. 7 501) 
shall be deemed to be a rule of the Senate as it pertains to 
Members, officers, and employees of the Senate.

 RULE XXXVII


 conflict of interest


 1. A Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall not 
receive any compensation, nor shall he permit any compensation 
to accrue to his beneficial interest from any source, the 
receipt or accrual of which would occur by virtue of influence 
improperly exerted from his position as a Member, officer, or 
employee.
 2. No Member, officer, or employee shall engage in any 
outside business or professional activity or employment for 
compensation which is inconsistent or in conflict with the 
conscientious performance of official duties.
 3. No officer or employee shall engage in any outside 
business or professional activity or employment for 
compensation unless he has reported in writing when such 
activity or employment commences and on May 15 of each year 
thereafter so long as such activity or employment continues, 
the nature of such activity or employment to his supervisor. 
The supervisor shall then, in the discharge of his duties, take 
such action as he considers necessary for the avoidance of 
conflict of interest or interference with duties to the Senate.
 4. No Member, officer, or employee shall knowingly use his 
official position to introduce or aid the progress or passage 
of legislation, a principal purpose of which is to further only 
his pecuniary interest, only the pecuniary interest of his 
immediate family, or only the pecuniary interest of a limited 
class of persons or enterprises, when he, or his immediate 
family, or enterprises controlled by them, are members of the 
affected class.
 5. (a) No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate 
compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum and 
employed for more than ninety days in a calendar year shall (1) 
affiliate with a firm, partnership, association, or corporation 
for the purpose of providing professional services for 
compensation; (2) permit that individual's name to be used by 
such a firm, partnership, association or corporation; or (3) 
practice a profession for compensation to any extent during 
regular office hours of the Senate office in which employed. 
For the purposes of this paragraph, ``professional services'' 
shall include but not be limited to those which involve a 
fiduciary relationship.
 (b) \38\ A Member or an officer or employee whose rate of 
basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the annual 
rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-15 of the General 
Schedule shall not--
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 (1) receive compensation for affiliating with or 
 being employed by a firm, partnership, association, 
 corporation, or other entity which provides 
 professional services involving a fiduciary 
 relationship;
 (2) permit that Member's, officer's, or employee's 
 name to be used by any such firm, partnership, 
 association, corporation, or other entity;
 (3) receive compensation for practicing a profession 
 which involves a fiduciary relationship; or
 (4) receive compensation for teaching,
without the prior notification and approval of the Select \39\ 
Committee on Ethics.
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 6. (a) No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate 
compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum and 
employed for more than ninety days in a calendar year shall 
serve as an officer or member of the board of any publicly held 
or publicly regulated corporation, financial institution, or 
business entity. The preceding sentence shall not apply to 
service of a Member, officer, or employee as--
 (1) an officer or member of the board of an 
 organization which is exempt from taxation under 
 section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, if 
 such service is performed without compensation;
 (2) an officer or member of the board of an 
 institution or organization which is principally 
 available to Members, officers, or employees of the 
 Senate, or their families, if such service is performed 
 without compensation; or
 (3) a member of the board of a corporation, 
 institution, or other business entity, if (A) the 
 Member, officer, or employee had served continuously as 
 a member of the board thereof for at least two years 
 prior to his election or appointment as a Member, 
 officer, or employee of the Senate, (B) the amount of 
 time required to perform such service is minimal, and 
 (C) the Member, officer, or employee is not a member 
 of, or a member of the staff of any Senate committee 
 which has legislative jurisdiction over any agency of 
 the Government charged with regulating the activities 
 of the corporation, institution, or other business 
 entity.
 (b) \40\ A Member or an officer or employee whose rate of 
basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the annual 
rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-15 of the General 
Schedule shall not serve for compensation as an officer or 
member of the board of any association, corporation, or other 
entity.
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 7. An employee on the staff of a committee who is 
compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum and 
employed for more than ninety days in a calendar year shall 
divest himself of any substantial holdings which may be 
directly affected by the actions of the committee for which he 
works, unless the Select Committee, after consultation with the 
employee's supervisor, grants permission in writing to retain 
such holdings or the employee makes other arrangements 
acceptable to the Select Committee and the employee's 
supervisor to avoid participation in committee actions where 
there is a conflict of interest, or the appearance thereof.
 8. If a Member, upon leaving office, becomes a registered 
lobbyist under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 
or any successor statute, or is employed or retained by such a 
registered lobbyist for the purpose of influencing legislation, 
he shall not lobby Members, officers, or employees of the 
Senate for a period of one year after leaving office.
 9. If an employee on the staff of a Member, upon leaving 
that position, becomes a registered lobbyist under the Federal 
Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 or any successor statute, or 
is employed or retained by such a registered lobbyist for the 
purpose of influencing legislation, such employee may not lobby 
the Member for whom he worked or that Member's staff for a 
period of one year after leaving that position. If an employee 
on the staff of a committee, upon leaving his position, becomes 
such a registered lobbyist or is employed or retained by such a 
registered lobbyist for the purpose of influencing legislation, 
such employee may not lobby the members of the committee for 
which he worked, or the staff of that committee, for a period 
of one year after leaving his position.
 10. \41\ (a) Except as provided by subparagraph (b), any 
employee of the Senate who is required to file a report 
pursuant to rule XXXIV shall refrain from participating 
personally and substantially as an employee of the Senate in 
any contact with any agency of the executive or judicial branch 
of Government with respect to non-legislative matters affecting 
any non-governmental person in which the employee has a 
significant financial interest.
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and 11 were renumbered as 11 and 12, respectively, and paragraph 10 was 
added.
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 (b) Subparagraph (a) shall not apply if an employee first 
advises his supervising authority of his significant financial 
interest and obtains from his employing authority a written 
waiver stating that the participation of the employee is 
necessary. A copy of each such waiver shall be filed with the 
Select Committee.
 11. For purposes of this rule--
 (a) ``employee of the Senate'' includes an employee or 
individual described in paragraphs 2, 3, and 4(c) of rule XLI;
 (b) an individual who is an employee on the staff of a 
subcommittee of a committee shall be treated as an employee on 
the staff of such committee; and
 (c) the term ``lobbying'' means any oral or written 
communication to influence the content or disposition of any 
issue before Congress, including any pending or future bill, 
resolution, treaty, nomination, hearing, report, or 
investigation; but does not include--
 (1) a communication (i) made in the form of testimony 
 given before a committee or office of the Congress, or 
 (ii) submitted for inclusion in the public record, 
 public docket, or public file of a hearing; or
 (2) a communication by an individual, acting solely 
 on his own behalf, for redress of personal grievances, 
 or to express his personal opinion.
 12. For purposes of this rule--
 (a) a Senator or the Vice President is the supervisor of 
his administrative, clerical, or other assistants;
 (b) a Senator who is the chairman of a committee is the 
supervisor of the professional, clerical, or other assistants 
to the committee except that minority staff members shall be 
under the supervision of the ranking minority Senator on the 
committee;
 (c) a Senator who is a chairman of a subcommittee which has 
its own staff and financial authorization is the supervisor of 
the professional, clerical, or other assistants to the 
subcommittee except that minority staff members shall be under 
the supervision of the ranking minority Senator on the 
subcommittee;
 (d) the President pro tempore is the supervisor of the 
Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, the 
Chaplain, the Legislative Counsel, and the employees of the 
Office of the Legislative Counsel;
 (e) the Secretary of the Senate is the supervisor of the 
employees of his office;
 (f) the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper is the supervisor 
of the employees of his office;
 (g) the Majority and Minority Leaders and the Majority and 
Minority Whips are the supervisors of the research, clerical, 
or other assistants assigned to their respective offices;
 (h) the Majority Leader is the supervisor of the Secretary 
for the Majority and the Secretary for the Majority is the 
supervisor of the employees of his office; and
 (i) the Minority Leader is the supervisor of the Secretary 
for the Minority and the Secretary for the Minority is the 
supervisor of the employees of his office.

 RULE XXXVIII


 prohibition of unofficial office accounts


 1. (a) \42\ No Member may maintain or have maintained for 
his use an unofficial office account. The term ``unofficial 
office account'' means an account or repository into which 
funds are received for the purpose, at least in part, of 
defraying otherwise unreimbursed expenses allowable in 
connection with the operation of a Member's office. An 
unofficial office account does not include, and expenses 
incurred by a Member in connection with his official duties 
shall be defrayed only from--
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pursuant to S. Res. 192, 102-1, Oct. 31, 1991. Effective date of May 1, 
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 (1) personal funds of the Member;
 (2) official funds specifically appropriated for that 
 purpose;
 (3) funds derived from a political committee (as 
 defined in section 301(d) of the Federal Election 
 Campaign Act of 1971 \43\); and
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 (4) funds received as reasonable reimbursements for 
 expenses incurred by a Member in connection with 
 personal services provided by the Member to the 
 organization making the reimbursement.
 (b) Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), official expenses may 
be defrayed only as provided by subsections (d) and (i) of 
section 311 of the Legislative Appropriations Act, 1991 (Pub. 
L. 101-520). \44\
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 2. No contribution (as defined in section 301(e) of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431)) shall be 
converted to the personal use of any Member or any former 
Member. For the purposes of this rule ``personal use'' does not 
include reimbursement of expenses incurred by a Member in 
connection with his official duties.

 RULE XXXIX


 foreign travel


 1. (a) \45\ Unless authorized by the Senate (or by the 
President of the United States after an adjournment sine die), 
no funds from the U.S. Government (including foreign currencies 
made available under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act 
of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 1754(b)) \46\ shall be received for the 
purpose of travel outside the United States by any Member of 
the Senate whose term will expire at the end of a Congress 
after--
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renumbered as 1(a) and subparagraph (b) was added.
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 (1) the date of the general election in which his 
 successor is elected; or
 (2) in the case of a Member who is not a candidate in 
 such general election, the earlier of the date of such 
 general election or the adjournment sine die of the 
 second regular session of that Congress.
 (b) The travel restrictions provided by subparagraph (a) 
with respect to a Member of the Senate whose term will expire 
at the end of a Congress shall apply to travel by--
 (1) any employee of the Member;
 (2) any elected officer of the Senate whose 
 employment will terminate at the end of a Congress; and
 (3) any employee of a committee whose employment will 
 terminate at the end of a Congress.
 2. No Member, officer, or employee engaged in foreign 
travel may claim payment or accept funds from the U.S. 
Government (including foreign currencies made available under 
section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 
1754(b)) for any expense for which the individual has received 
reimbursement from any other source; nor may such Member, 
officer, or employee receive reimbursement for the same expense 
more than once from the U.S. Government. No Member, officer, or 
employee shall use any funds furnished to him to defray 
ordinary and necessary expenses of foreign travel for any 
purpose other than the purpose or purposes for which such funds 
were furnished.
 3. A per diem allowance provided a Member, officer, or 
employee in connection with foreign travel shall be used solely 
for lodging, food, and related expenses and it is the 
responsibility of the Member, officer, or employee receiving 
such an allowance to return to the U.S. Government that portion 
of the allowance received which is not actually used for 
necessary lodging, food, and related expenses.

 RULE XL


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 \47\ Section 3210 of title 39, U.S.Code, contains statutory 
provisions that are parallel to certain provisions of rule XL relating 
to the franking privilege. See also Senate Manual, Sec. 491.
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 1. A Senator or an individual who is a candidate for 
nomination for election, or election, to the Senate may not use 
the frank for any mass mailing (as defined in section 
3210(a)(6)(E) \48\ of title 39, United States Code) if such 
mass mailing is mailed at or delivered to any postal facility 
less than sixty days immediately before the date of any primary 
or general election (whether regular, special, or runoff) in 
which the Senator is a candidate for public office or the 
individual is a candidate for Senator, unless the candidacy of 
the Senator in such election is uncontested. \49\
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pursuant to Pub.L. 97-69, Oct. 26, 1981.
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 2. A Senator shall use only official funds of the Senate, 
including his official Senate allowances, to purchase paper, to 
print, or to prepare any mass mailing material which is to be 
sent out under the frank.
 3. (a) When a Senator disseminates information under the 
frank by a mass mailing (as defined in section 3210(a)(6)(E) of 
title 39, United States Code), the Senator shall register 
quarterly \50\ with the Secretary of the Senate such mass 
mailings. Such registration shall be made by filing with the 
Secretary a copy of the matter mailed and providing, on a form 
supplied by the Secretary, a description of the group or groups 
of persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed.
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 (b) The Secretary of the Senate shall promptly make 
available for public inspection and copying a copy of the mail 
matter registered, and a description of the group or groups of 
persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed.
 4. Nothing in this rule shall apply to any mailing under 
the frank which is (a) in direct response to inquiries or 
requests from persons to whom the matter is mailed; (b) 
addressed to colleagues in Congress or to government officials 
(whether Federal, State, or local); or (c) consists entirely of 
news releases to the communications media.
 5. The Senate computer facilities shall not be used (a) to 
store, maintain, or otherwise process any lists or categories 
of lists of names and addresses identifying the individuals 
included in such lists as campaign workers or contributors, as 
members of a political party, or by any other partisan 
political designation, (b) to produce computer printouts except 
as authorized by user guides approved by the Committee on Rules 
and Administration, or (c) to produce mailing labels for mass 
mailings, or computer tapes and discs, for use other than in 
service facilities maintained and operated by the Senate or 
under contract to the Senate. The Committee on Rules and 
Administration shall prescribe such regulations not 
inconsistent with the purposes of this paragraph as it 
determines necessary to carry out such purposes.
 6. (a) The radio and television studios provided by the 
Senate or by the House of Representatives may not be used by a 
Senator or an individual who is a candidate for nomination for 
election, or election, to the Senate less than sixty days 
immediately before the date of any primary or general election 
(whether regular, special, or runoff) in which that Senator is 
a candidate for public office or that individual is a candidate 
for Senator, unless the candidacy of the Senator in such 
election is uncontested. \51\
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 (b) This paragraph shall not apply if the facilities are to 
be used at the request of, and at the expense of, a licensed 
broadcast organization or an organization exempt from taxation 
under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

 RULE XLI


 political fund activity; definitions


 1. No officer or employee of the Senate may receive, 
solicit, be a custodian of, or distribute any funds in 
connection with any campaign for the nomination for election, 
or the election, of any individual to be a Member of the Senate 
or to any other Federal office. This prohibition does not apply 
to three \52\ assistants to a Senator, at least one of whom is 
in Washington, District of Columbia, who have been designated 
by that Senator to perform any of the functions described in 
the first sentence of this paragraph and who are compensated at 
an annual rate in excess of $10,000 if such designation has 
been made in writing and filed with the Secretary of the Senate 
and if each such assistant files a financial statement in the 
form provided under rule XXXIV for each year during which he is 
designated under this rule. The Majority Leader and the 
Minority Leader may each designate an employee of their 
respective leadership office staff as one of the 3 designees 
referred to in the second sentence. \53\ The Secretary of the 
Senate shall make the designation available for public 
inspection.
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 \53\ As amended, S. Res. 258, 100-1, Oct. 1, 1987.
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 2. For purposes of the Senate Code of Official Conduct--
 (a) an employee of the Senate includes any employee whose 
salary is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate; and
 (b) the compensation of an officer or employee of the 
Senate who is a reemployed annuitant shall include amounts 
received by such officer or employee as an annuity, and such 
amounts shall be treated as disbursed by the Secretary of the 
Senate.
 3. Before approving the utilization by any committee of the 
Senate of the services of an officer or employee of the 
Government in accordance with paragraph 4 \54\ of rule XXVII or 
with an authorization provided by Senate resolution, the 
Committee on Rules and Administration shall require such 
officer or employee to agree in writing to comply with the 
Senate Code of Official Conduct in the same manner and to the 
same extent as an employee of the Senate. Any such officer or 
employee shall, for purposes of such Code, be treated as an 
employee of the Senate receiving compensation disbursed by the 
Secretary of the Senate in an amount equal to the amount of 
compensation he is receiving as an officer or employee of the 
Government.
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 4. No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall 
utilize the full-time services of an individual for more than 
ninety days in a calendar year in the conduct of official 
duties of any committee or office of the Senate (including a 
Member's office) unless such individual--
 (a) is an officer or employee of the Senate,
 (b) is an officer or employee of the Government 
 (other than the Senate), or
 (c) agrees in writing to comply with the Senate Code 
 of Official Conduct in the same manner and to the same 
 extent as an employee of the Senate.
Any individual to whom subparagraph (c) applies shall, for 
purposes of such Code, be treated as an employee of the Senate 
receiving compensation disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate 
in an amount equal to the amount of compensation which such 
individual is receiving from any source for performing such 
services.
 5. In exceptional circumstances for good cause shown, the 
Select Committee on Ethics may waive the applicability of any 
provision of the Senate Code of Official Conduct to an employee 
hired on a per diem basis.
 6. (a) The supervisor of an individual who performs 
services for any Member, committee, or office of the Senate for 
a period in excess of four weeks and who receives compensation 
therefor from any source other than the U.S. Government shall 
report to the Select Committee on Ethics with respect to the 
utilization of the services of such individual.
 (b) A report under subparagraph (a) shall be made with 
respect to an individual--
 (1) when such individual begins performing services 
 described in such subparagraph;
 (2) at the close of each calendar quarter while such 
 individual is performing such services; and
 (3) when such individual ceases to perform such 
 services.
Each such report shall include the identity of the source of 
the compensation received by such individual and the amount or 
rate of compensation paid by such source.
 (c) No report shall be required under subparagraph (a) with 
respect to an individual who normally performs services for a 
Member, committee, or office for less than eight hours a week.
 (d) For purposes of this paragraph, the supervisor of an 
individual shall be determined under paragraph 12 \55\ of rule 
XXXVII.
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S. Res. 299, 106-2, Apr. 27, 2000.
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 RULE XLII


 employment practices


 1. No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall, 
with respect to employment by the Senate or any office 
thereof--
 (a) fail or refuse to hire an individual;
 (b) discharge an individual; or
 (c) otherwise discriminate against an individual with 
 respect to promotion, compensation, or terms, 
 conditions, or privileges of employment
on the basis of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, 
national origin, age, or state of physical handicap.
 2. \56\ For purposes of this rule, the provisions of 
section 509(a) of the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 
shall be deemed to be a rule of the Senate as it pertains to 
Members, officers, and employees of the Senate. \57\
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 \56\ Added by S. Res. 192, 102-1, Oct. 31, 1991, effective July 26, 
1990.
 \57\ Government employee rights provisions are found at 2 U.S.C. 
1201-1224. [Senate Manual, Sec. Sec. 399.60-83]
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 RULE XLIII


 representation by members \58\
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 \58\ Rule established by S. Res. 273, 101-2, July 2, 1992.
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 1. In responding to petitions for assistance, a Member of 
the Senate, acting directly or through employees, has the right 
to assist petitioners before executive and independent 
government officials and agencies.
 2. At the request of a petitioner, a Member of the Senate, 
or a Senate employee, may communicate with an executive or 
independent government official or agency on any matter to--
 (a) request information or a status report;
 (b) urge prompt consideration;
 (c) arrange for interviews or appointments;
 (d) express judgments;
 (e) call for reconsideration of an administrative 
 response which the Member believes is not reasonable 
 supported by statutes, regulations or considerations of 
 equity or public policy; or
 (f) perform any other service of a similar nature 
 consistent with the provisions of this rule.
 3. The decision to provide assistance to petitioners may 
not be made on the basis of contributions or services, or 
promises of contributions or services, to the Member's 
political campaigns or to other organizations in which the 
Member has a political, personal, or financial interest.
 4. A Member shall make a reasonable effort to assure that 
representations made in the Member's name by any Senate 
employee are accurate and conform to the Member's instructions 
and to this rule.
 5. Nothing in this rule shall be construed to limit the 
authority of Members, and Senate employees, to perform 
legislative, including committee, responsibilities.


 INDEX



 A

 Page
Absence of:
 Senators..................................................... 4
 Vice President............................................... 1
Acting President pro tempore, duties of the Chair................ 1
Additional numbers of documents, printing of..................... 7
Additional views in committee reports............................ 35
Adjourn, motion to............................................... 4, 15
Aging, Special Committee on, membership of....................... 27
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Committee on............... 18
Amend, motion to................................................. 15
Amendment(s):
 Committee, not within jurisdiction........................... 10
 Division of a question....................................... 10
 Not in order.................................................10, 11
 Of the rules................................................. 4
 Post-cloture.................................................16, 17
 Tabled without prejudice to the bill......................... 10
 To appropriations bills......................................11, 12
 Treaties..................................................... 39
Announcement of committee hearings............................... 30
Appeal from ruling of the Chair..................................14, 15
Appointment of:
 Committees................................................... 18
 Senator to the Chair......................................... 1
 Senator, by Governor......................................... 3
Appropriations bills:
 Amendments, restrictions on.................................. 11
 New spending authority....................................... 19
 Points of order.............................................. 11
 Private claims prohibited.................................... 11
 Procedure on................................................. 11
 Reappropriating unexpended balances.......................... 12
 Reports to identify items not required to carry out 
 provisions of existing law................................. 11
 Rescission of appropriations................................. 19
Appropriations, Committee on:
 Excepted from certain procedures..........................13, 30-36
 Jurisdiction of.............................................. 19
Armed Services, Committee on..................................... 19
Assistant Secretary of the Senate, duties of the Chair........... 1
Authorization, expenditure, for committees....................... 34



 B

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Committee on................ 19
Bills and resolutions:
 See Amendment(s).
 See Appropriations bills.
 Calendar call................................................ 5
 Enrollment of................................................ 9
 Introduction of.............................................5, 6, 9
 Motion to commit............................................. 9
 Over, under the rule......................................... 6, 9
 Pension bills................................................ 10
 Preambles.................................................... 10
 Printing of.................................................. 7
 Private bills................................................ 10
 Reading of................................................... 9
 Reference to committees...................................... 9, 12
 Reported from committees. See also Reports, committee..9, 12, 13, 34
 Signing enrolled bills....................................... 1
 To lie over one day.......................................... 9
Broadcasting of committee hearings............................... 32
Budget, Committee on the......................................... 20
 Excepted from certain procedures............................. 30-35
Business:
 Continued from session to session............................ 13
 Executive or confidential....................................38, 39
 Morning business............................................. 5
 Order of..................................................... 6
 Special orders............................................... 7
``Byrd rule.'' See 2 U.S.C. 644. [Senate Manual Sec. 399.39-15b]



 C

Calendar of bills and resolutions:
 Calendar Monday.............................................. 5
 Calendar, call of............................................ 6
 Consideration of items on.................................... 9
 Placing of items on.......................................... 7
Calendar of special orders....................................... 7
Candidates of U.S. Senate, financial disclosure requirements. See 
 5 U.S.C. App. 6. [Senate Manual Sec. 439]
Capitol, Senate wing, regulation of.............................. 41
Certificates of election or appointments of Senator:
 Forms of..................................................... 2, 3
 Record of.................................................... 2
Chair. See also Presiding Officer:
 Order in the Chamber or Galleries, enforcement............... 14
 Performance of duties by others.............................. 1
 Rulings, appeal from.........................................14, 15
Chairman, committee:
 Appointment of............................................... 18
 Duty to report approved measures promptly.................... 34
 Limitations on service....................................... 28
 Ranking majority member to serve in absence of............... 30
 Resignation of............................................... 18
Chaplain, daily prayer by........................................ 4
Charitable contribution in lieu of honorarium.................... 48
Claims, private.................................................. 10
Closed session of:
 Committees...................................................31, 32
 Conferences.................................................. 38
 Senate....................................................... 15
Cloture procedure:
 Extension of debate.......................................... 16
 Filing the cloture motion.................................... 15
 Quorum required.............................................. 15
 Reading of Journal dispensed with............................ 3
 30-hour limit................................................ 16
Code of Official Conduct. See Senate Code of Official Conduct.
Commencement of daily sessions................................... 3
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Committee on.............. 20
Commit, motion to................................................ 9, 15
Committee powers................................................. 29
Committee(s), joint:
 Economic..................................................... 27
 Taxation..................................................... 27
Committee(s), select:
 Ethics....................................................... 27
 Intelligence................................................. 27
Committee(s), special:
 Aging........................................................ 27
Committee(s), standing:
 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry......................... 18
 Appropriations. See also Appropriations, Committee on........ 19
 Armed Services............................................... 19
 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.......................... 19
 Budget. See also Budget, Committee on the.................... 20
 Commerce, Science, and Transportation........................ 20
 Energy and Natural Resources................................. 21
 Environment and Public Works................................. 21
 Finance...................................................... 22
 Foreign Relations............................................ 22
 Governmental Affairs......................................... 23
 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions....................... 24
 Judiciary.................................................... 24
 Rules and Administration See also Rules and Administration, 
 Committee on............................................... 25
 Small Business............................................... 26
 Veterans' Affairs............................................ 26
Committee(s):
 Amendments, not within jurisdication......................... 10
 Appointment of............................................... 18
 Chairman. See Chairman, committee............................
 Conference, reports of.......................................37, 38
 Discharge, motion to......................................... 13
 Expenditure authorizations................................... 34
 Hearings. See Hearings, committee............................
 Investigations, authority for................................ 29
 Jurisdiction, questions of................................... 12
 Legislation jointly or sequentially referred................. 12
 Legislative review by........................................33, 36
 Meetings. See Meetings of committees.
 Membership. See Membership of committees.
 Minority staff............................................... 37
 Powers, continuous........................................... 18
 Procedure.................................................... 30
 Proxies, use of..............................................32, 33
 Quorum....................................................... 32
 Records. See Records of committees.
 Reference of bills and resolutions to........................ 9, 12
 Report on committee activities............................... 33
 Reports. See Reports, committee..............................
 Rules of..................................................... 30
 Sessions of.................................................. 31
 Sitting while the Senate is in session....................... 31
 Staff........................................................ 37
 Subcommittees, limitation on service on......................27, 28
 Subpena power................................................ 29
 Voting.......................................................32, 33
 Witnesses....................................................30, 31
Communications from heads of departments......................... 5
Computer facilities, restrictions on use......................... 54
Conference committees, reports of................................37, 38
Confidential business, disclosure prohibited..................... 39
Confidential proceedings to be kept in separate book............. 4
Conflict of interest:
 Ethics rule.................................................. 49
 Voting....................................................... 8
Congressional Record:
 Committee rules of procedure to be published in.............. 30
 Memorials and petitions, summary to be printed in............ 5
 Nominations to be printed in................................. 41
Constituent services............................................. 57
Contribution (charitable) in lieu of honorarium.................. 48
Contribution converted to personal use prohibited................ 53
Contributions, political, to nominees for U.S. Senator. See 2 
 U.S.C.Sec. Sec. 431-437. [Senate Manual Sec. Sec. 399.8-399.11]
``Cordon rule'' (Rule 26, para.12)............................... 36
Credentials, presentation of..................................... 1, 2



 D

Daily sessions, commencement of.................................. 3
Debate:
 Close, motion to. See Cloture procedure......................
 Germaneness of............................................... 14
 Procedure in.................................................13, 14
Discharge a committee, motion to................................. 13
Disclosure of confidential business prohibited................... 39
Disclosure of financial interests by Senators, officers and 
 employees of the Senate........................................ 42
Discrimination prohibited in employment practices................ 57
Division of a question........................................... 10



 E

Election of Senators, certificates............................... 2
Employees of the Senate:
 Authority of Senators and officers over employees 42, 52.....
 Committee employees. See Committee(s): Staff.
 Conflict of interest......................................... 49
 Employment discrimination prohibited......................... 57
 Financial disclosure......................................... 42
 Floor privilege.............................................. 17
 Foreign travel...............................................47, 53
 Gifts........................................................ 43
 Non-government employees, use of restricted.................. 56
 Outside earned income........................................ 49
 Political fund activity...................................... 55
 Post-employment lobbying restrictions........................ 51
 Representation of petitioners................................ 57
 Temporary, 90-day limit...................................... 56
Energy and Natural Resources, Committee on....................... 21
Enrollment of bills and resolutions.............................. 9
 Signing of same.............................................. 1
Environment and Public Works, Committee on....................... 21
Ethics Rules. See Senate Code of Official Conduct.
Ethics, Select Committee on, membership.......................... 27
Executive sessions of the Senate:................................ 38
 Motion to proceed to executive business...................... 15
 Nominations.................................................. 40
 President furnished with records............................. 41
 Proceedings to be kept in separate book...................... 4
 Treaties..................................................... 39
Expenditure authorizations, committee............................ 34



 F

Fair employment practices........................................ 57
Filing of committee reports......................................34, 35
Finance, Committee on............................................ 22
Financial disclosure. See also 5 U.S.C. App. 6. [Senate Manual 
 Sec. 439]...................................................... 42
Floor:
 Privilege of................................................. 17
 Recognition.................................................. 13
Foreign Relations, Committee on.................................. 22
Foreign travel by Senators, officers and employees............... 53
 Advance authorization and disclosure......................... 47
Franking privilege:
 See also Mass mailing.
 Use of official funds........................................ 54



 G

Galleries:
 News media, regulation of.................................... 41
 Occupants of, no Senator shall call attention to............. 14
 Order in, enforcement........................................ 14
Germaneness of debate............................................ 14
Gifts to Senators, officers, employees, spouses and dependents. 
 See also 2 U.S.C. 31-2. [Senate Manual Sec. 220.1]............. 43
Governmental Affairs, Committee on............................... 23



 H

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Committee on............. 24
Hearings, committee
 Announcement of.............................................. 30
 Authority for................................................ 29
 Availability................................................. 13
 Broadcasting/televising of................................... 32
 Closed....................................................... 31
 Executive decisions.......................................... 13
 Open......................................................... 31
 Printing of.................................................. 34
 Procedure.................................................... 30
 Scheduling................................................... 30-32
 Staff summary of witness testimony........................... 31
 Stenographic assistance for reporting of..................... 29
 Witnesses....................................................29, 30
House of Representatives:
 Bills or messages from......................................5, 6, 9
 Concurrence required for printing additional copies at a cost 
 exceeding the sum established by law....................... 7
 Messages to.................................................. 6
 Motion to request return of an item from..................... 8



 I

Impeachment proceedings to be kept in separate book.............. 4
Indian Affairs, Committee on, membership......................... 27
Injunction of secrecy............................................ 38-40
Intelligence, Select Committee on, membership.................... 27
Investigations, committee authority for.......................... 29



 J

Joint Committee on Taxation, membership.......................... 27
Joint Economic Committee, membership............................. 27
Joint referral to committees of proposed legislation............. 12
Journal:
 Contents of.................................................. 4
 Legislative, executive, confidential, and impeachment 
 proceedings to be kept in separate books................... 4
 Reading of..............................................3, 4, 5, 37
Judiciary, Committee on the...................................... 24
Jurisdiction of committees....................................... 18-26



 L

Lame-duck foreign travel prohibited.............................. 53
Leaders, Majority and Minority
 Authority over certain employees.............................42, 52
 Cloture, control of additional time.......................... 16
 Committee membership, temporary increases in................. 28
 Committees, permission to meet while Senate is in session.... 31
 Joint referral of bills...................................... 12
 2-day rule waiver............................................ 13
``Leaks.'' Disclosure of confidential business................... 38
Legislation jointly referred to committees....................... 12
Legislative proceedings to be kept in separate book.............. 4
Legislative review by standing committees:
 Appropriations and Budget Committees excepted................ 33
 Due by Mar. 31 in odd years.................................. 33
Lobbying, restrictions on former Members or employees............ 51



 M

Majority Leader. See Leaders, Majority and Minority.
Mass mailing under the frank:
 Exceptions................................................... 54
 Pre-election restrictions.................................... 54
 Public inspection, available for............................. 54
 Quarterly reports............................................ 54
 Registration of mass mailings with Secretary of the Senate... 54
Meetings of committees:
 See also Hearings, committee.................................
 Broadcasting or televising................................... 32
 Closed and open sessions..................................... 31
 Order, maintenance of........................................ 32
 Permission to meet while Senate is in session................ 31
 Public announcement.......................................... 30
 Record of (transcript or electronic)......................... 32
 Regular meeting days......................................... 30
 Requesting a special meeting................................. 30
 Scheduling................................................... 30-32
Membership of committees.........................................26, 27
 Appointment of............................................... 18
 Ex officio................................................... 28
 Limitations and exceptions in respect to..................... 27-29
 Temporary increases in (by leadership agreement)............. 28
Memorials. See Petitions or memorials
Messages from:
 House of Representatives..................................... 5, 6
 President of the United States............................... 5, 6
Messages to:
 House of Representatives..................................... 6
 President of the United States............................... 7
Minority Leader. See Leaders, Majority and Minority
Minority views in committee reports.............................. 35
Minority:
 Staff of committees.......................................... 37
 Witnesses before committees.................................. 31
Morning business................................................. 5, 6
Morning hour, conclusion of....................................5, 6, 14
Motion to:
 Adjourn................................................4, 6, 15, 37
 Amend........................................................ 15
 Amend or correct the Journal................................. 3
 Amend the part to be stricken................................ 10
 Change order of special orders............................... 7
 Close debate. See also Cloture procedure..................... 15
 Commit a bill or resolution...................................9, 15
 Compel the presence of absent Senators....................... 4
 Continue consideration of a subject.......................... 6
 Discharge a committee from consideration of a matter......... 13
 Extend post-cloture debate................................... 16
 Lay before the Senate bills or other matters from the 
 President or the House..................................... 5
 Lay on the table............................................. 15
 Postpone indefinitely........................................ 15
 Print documents.............................................. 7
 Proceed to consideration of a change in Standing Rules....... 6
 Proceed to executive business................................ 15
 Proceed to other business.................................... 6
 Recess....................................................... 15
 Reconsider................................................... 10
 Reconsider a nomination...................................... 40
 Refer a matter to committee.................................. 12
 Request return of an item from the House..................... 8
 Strike out and insert........................................ 10
 Suspend, modify, or amend any rule........................... 4
Motions:
 Precedence of................................................10, 15
 To be in writing if requested................................ 10
 Withdrawal or modification of by mover....................... 10



 N

Nominations:
 Injunction of secrecy........................................ 40
 Proceedings on............................................... 40
Noncurrent records of the Senate................................. 7



 O

Oath, Senatorial................................................. 3
Objection to reading a paper..................................... 7
Offensive references to another Senator or State prohibited...... 14
Office accounts of Senators, unofficial, prohibited.............. 52
Office expenses, use of contributed funds prohibited............. 53
Officers of the Senate:
 Authority over employees.....................................42, 52
 Conflict interest............................................ 49
 Financial disclosure......................................... 42
 Foreign travel...............................................47, 53
 Gifts........................................................ 43
 Outside earned income........................................ 49
 Political fund activity...................................... 55
Official funds, use of for mass mailing.......................... 54
Open sessions:
 Committees................................................... 31
 Conferences.................................................. 38
Order:
 In Chamber or Galleries, enforcement......................... 14
 In committees, enforcement................................... 32
 Of business.................................................. 6
 Of special orders............................................ 7
 Questions of................................................. 14
Outside earned income............................................ 49



 P

Papers:
 Objection to reading......................................... 7
 Printing of.................................................. 7
 Transfer of noncurrent records............................... 7
 Withdrawal of................................................ 7
``Pastore rule'' (Rule 19, para. 1(b))........................... 14
Pension bills.................................................... 10
Personnel on detail from other agencies.......................... 37
Petitions or memorials:
 Presentation of.............................................. 5
 Reference of................................................. 5
 Summary of, to be printed in Congressional Record............ 6
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the U.S...................... 3
Points of order:
 Amendments not within committee's jurisdiction............... 10
 Appropriations bill proposing new or general legislation..... 11
 Conference report, new matter in............................. 37
 During cloture proceedings................................... 16
 Measure reported from a committee............................ 36
 Reappropriating unexpended balances.......................... 12
 Restriction on expenditure of funds appropriated.............11, 12
Political fund activity by officers and employees:
 Compliance with Code of Conduct.............................. 55
Post-employment lobbying restrictions............................ 51
Postpone, motion to.............................................. 15
Powers, committee................................................ 18
Prayer, daily, by Chaplain....................................... 4
Preambles........................................................ 10
Precedence of motions............................................10, 15
Presentation of credentials...................................... 2, 3
President of the United States
 Bills or messages from....................................... 5, 6
 Communications, confidential, from........................... 38
 Former Presidents entitled to address the Senate............. 14
 Meeting with Senate on executive business.................... 38
 Messages to.................................................. 7
 Transcript of executive records.............................. 41
President pro tempore. see also Presiding Officer:
 Vice President, absence of................................... 1
Presiding Officer. See also Chair.
 Bills or other matters from the President or the House, may 
 at any time lay before the Senate.......................... 5
 Calling a Senator to order................................... 14
 Cloture debate, to keep time during.......................... 16
 Directing a Senator to take his/her seat..................... 14
 Order in the Chamber or Galleries, enforcement............... 14
 President pro tempore........................................ 1
 Recognition of a Senator who desires to speak................13, 14
 Rules for regulation of Senate wing, enforcement............. 41
 Rulings, appeal from......................................... 14
Printing of:
 Additional numbers of documents.............................. 7
 Bills and resolutions........................................ 7
 Committee reports............................................ 7, 34
 Conference reports........................................... 38
 Hearings, committee..........................................13, 34
 Papers received from the House............................... 7
Private bills and claims.........................................10, 11
Privilege of the floor........................................... 17
Procedure, committee............................................. 30
Proxies, use of in committee..................................... 32



 Q

Question:
 Division of a................................................ 10
 Of absence of a quorum....................................... 4
 Of order..................................................... 14
Quorum:
 Absence of, question of...................................... 4
 For cloture vote............................................. 15
 For unanimous consent to take a final vote on a specific date 8
 Of a committee............................................... 32
 Of the Senate................................................ 4
 Sergeant at Arms to obtain attendance of absent Senators..... 4



 R

Radio and television:
 Broadcasting of committee meetings........................... 32
 Studios, restrictions on use................................. 55
Ranking majority member of a committee to serve in absence of the 
 chairman....................................................... 30
Ratification of treaties......................................... 39
Reading of:
 Bills and joint resolutions.................................. 9
 Journal....................................................3, 4, 37
 Paper, objection to.......................................... 7
Recess, motion to................................................ 15
Reconsideration.................................................. 8
Records of committees:
 Actions...................................................... 33
 Availability to all members.................................. 34
 Proceedings (open or closed)................................. 32
 Separate from chairman's office records...................... 34
 Votes........................................................32, 33
Records of the Senate, noncurrent................................ 7
Records, financial disclosure.................................... 42
Reference, to committees...................................6, 9, 12, 13
Regulation of the Senate wing of the Capitol..................... 41
Reports, committee:
 Activities during the preceding Congress..................... 33
 Availability of (2-day rule)................................. 13
 Conference committees........................................37, 38
 Contents required............................................ 35
 Cost estimate................................................ 35
 Debate equally divided....................................... 38
 Filing of.................................................... 34
 Legislative review........................................... 33
 Printing of.................................................. 7, 34
 Proposed changes in existing law............................. 36
 Regulatory impact statement................................. 35
 Submission of................................................ 5
 Supplemental, minority, or additional views.................. 35
 Tabulation of votes cast..................................... 33
 To identify items not required to carry out provisions of 
 existing law............................................... 11
 To lie over one day.......................................... 13
 2-day rule................................................... 13
Reports, conference..............................................37, 38
Reports, financial disclosure.................................... 42
Representation by members........................................ 57
Restrictions on mass mailings.................................... 54
Rules and Administration, Committee on:
 Computer facilities, oversight............................... 55
 Floor privilege, regulation of............................... 17
 Jurisdiction................................................. 25
 Motions to print documents to be referred to................. 7
 Personnel detailed from other agencies....................... 37
 Senate wing, regulation of................................... 41
 Stenographic assistance to committees, regulations of........ 29
 Strategic plan for infrastructure support.................... 25
Rules of committees.............................................. 30
Rules of the Senate:
 Continuance in effect from Congress to Congress.............. 4
 Motion to suspend, modify, or amend.......................... 4, 6
 Suspension by unanimous consent.............................. 4



 S

Scheduling of committee sessions................................. 30-32
Secretary of the Senate:
 Assistant Secretary of the Senate............................ 1
 Certificates of election, record of.......................... 2
 Duties of the Chair.......................................... 1
 Enrollment of bills and resolutions and presentation of same 
 to the President........................................... 9
 Financial disclosure......................................... 42
 Mass mailings, registration of............................... 54
 Messages to the President and House to be delivered by....... 6, 7
 Nominations, duties pertaining to............................40, 41
 Petitions, memorials, bills or resolutions, function with 
 respect to................................................. 6
 Transfer of noncurrent records............................... 7
 Withdrawal of papers......................................... 7
Senate Chamber:
 Floor privilege.............................................. 17
 For Senate use only.......................................... 41
 Galleries....................................................15, 41
 Order in, enforcement........................................ 14
 Regulation of................................................ 41
 Smoking prohibited........................................... 41
Senate Code of Official Conduct:
 Conflict of interest......................................... 49
 Employment practices......................................... 57
 Financial disclosure, public................................. 42
 Foreign travel...............................................47, 53
 Franking privilege........................................... 54
 Gifts........................................................ 43
 Outside earned income........................................ 49
 Personal use of contributed funds prohibited................. 53
 Political fund activity...................................... 55
 Post-employment lobbying restrictions........................ 51
 Radio and television studios................................. 55
 Representation by members.................................... 57
 Unofficial office accounts prohibited........................ 52
Senate floor, persons admitted to................................ 17
Senate Office Buildings, regulation of........................... 41
Senate wing of the Capitol, regulation of........................ 41
Senators:
 Absence of................................................... 4
 Appointment by Governor...................................... 3
 Certificates of election or appointment...................... 2, 3
 Code of Official Conduct. See Senate Code of Official 
 Conduct.
 Conflict of interest......................................... 49
 Directed to take his/her seat................................ 14
 Disparaging references prohibited............................ 14
 Financial disclosure......................................... 42
 Foreign travel...............................................47, 53
 Franking privilege........................................... 54
 Gifts........................................................ 43
 Oath of office............................................... 3
 Outside earned income........................................ 49
 Post-employment lobbying restrictions........................ 51
 Radio and television studios, use of......................... 55
 Representation of petitioners................................ 57
Sergeant at Arms:
 Financial disclosure......................................... 42
 Quorum, function in obtaining................................ 4
Sessions:
 Committee. See Meetings of committees.
 Executive. See Executive sessions of the Senate.
 With closed doors............................................ 15
Small Business, Committee on..................................... 26
Smoking in Senate Chamber prohibited............................. 41
Special orders................................................... 7
Standing Rules of the Senate:
 Continuance in effect from Congress to Congress.............. 4
 Motion to suspend, modify, or amend.......................... 4, 6
 Suspension by unanimous consent.............................. 4
State, offensive references prohibited........................... 14
Statements of witnesses before committees, staff summary......... 30
Stenographic assistance for reporting of committee hearings...... 29
Subcommittees, limitation of service on..........................27, 28
Subpena power of committees...................................... 29
Summary of testimony before committees, by staff................. 31
Supplemental expenditure authorizations for committees........... 34
Supplemental views in committee reports.......................... 35
Suspension of the rules.......................................... 4



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Table, motion to................................................. 15
Taxation, Joint Committee on, membership......................... 27
Televising of committee hearings................................. 32
Television and Radio Studios:
 Exemption from restrictions.................................. 55
 User restrictions............................................ 55
Travel expenses, foreign.........................................47, 53
Treaties:
 Amendments................................................... 39
 Injunction of secrecy........................................ 39
 Proceedings on............................................... 39
Trust funds. See Rule 34. See also 5 U.S.C. App. 6 [Senate Manual 
 Sec. 439]...................................................... 42
2-day rule (Rule 17, para. 5).................................... 13



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Unanimous consent:
 To change or withdraw a Senator's vote....................... 8
 To proceed to consideration of a subject..................... 5
 To reconsider a question..................................... 8
 To suspend a rule............................................ 4
 To suspend reading of the Journal............................ 3, 4
 To take a final vote on a specific date...................... 8
Unfinished business.............................................. 6, 14
Unofficial office accounts prohibited............................52, 53



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Veterans' Affairs, Committee on.................................. 26
Vice President................................................... 1
Voting:
 Changing or withdrawing a Senator's vote..................... 8
 Committee....................................................32, 33
 Conflict of interest......................................... 8
 Reconsideration.............................................. 8
 Senator declining to vote.................................... 8
 Unanimous consent to take a final vote on a specific date.... 8
 Yeas and nays................................................ 8



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Withdrawal:
 Of motion, amendment, or resolution.......................... 10
 Of papers.................................................... 7
Witnesses, committee
 Authority to summon.......................................... 29
 Selected by minority......................................... 31
 To file advance statements................................... 30



 Y

Yeas and nays:
 See Voting.
 Conflict of interest......................................... 8

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