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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 11 

To establish as a standing order of the Senate that a Senator publicly 

disclose a notice of intent to objecting to any measure or matter. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 5, 2011 

Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. GRASSLEY, Mrs. MCCASKILL, Ms. COLLINS, 

Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. DURBIN, Ms. 

KLOBUCHAR, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. 

WHITEHOUSE, Mr. BINGAMAN, and Mr. MANCHIN) submitted the following resolution; which was ordered to lie over under the rule 

RESOLUTION 

To establish as a standing order of the Senate that a Senator 

publicly disclose a notice of intent to objecting to any 

measure or matter. 

1 Resolved, 

2 SECTION 1. ELIMINATING SECRET SENATE HOLDS. 

3 (a) IN GENERAL.— 

4 (1) COVERED REQUEST.—This standing order 

5 shall apply to a notice of intent to object to the fol6 lowing covered requests: 

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1 current resolution, conference report, or amend2 ment between the Houses. 

3 (B) A unanimous consent request to pass 

4 a bill or joint resolution or adopt a resolution, 

5 concurrent resolution, conference report, or the 

6 disposition of an amendment between the 

7 Houses. 

8 (C) A unanimous consent request for dis9 position of a nomination. 

10 (2) RECOGNITION OF NOTICE OF INTENT.—The 

11 majority and minority leaders of the Senate or their 

12 designees shall recognize a notice of intent to object 

13 to a covered request of a Senator who is a member 

14 of their caucus if the Senator— 

15 (A) submits the notice of intent to object 

16 in writing to the appropriate leader and grants 

17 in the notice of intent to object permission for 

18 the leader or designee to object in the Senator’s 

19 name; and 

20 (B) not later than 1 session day after sub21 mitting the notice of intent to object to the ap22 propriate leader, submits a copy of the notice of 

23 intent to object to the Congressional Record 

24 and to the Legislative Clerk for inclusion in the 


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1 applicable calendar section described in sub2 section (b). 

3 (3) FORM OF NOTICE.—To be recognized by the 

4 appropriate leader a Senator shall submit the fol5 lowing notice of intent to object: 

6 ‘‘I, Senator lllllll, intend to ob7 ject to llllllll, dated 

8 lllllll. I will submit a copy of this 

9 notice to the Legislative Clerk and the Congres10 sional Record within 1 session day and I give 

11 my permission to the objecting Senator to ob12 ject in my name.’’ The first blank shall be filled 

13 with the name of the Senator, the second blank 

14 shall be filled with the name of the covered re15 quest, the name of the measure or matter and, 

16 if applicable, the calendar number, and the 

17 third blank shall be filled with the date that the 

18 notice of intent to object is submitted. 

19 (b) CALENDAR.—Upon receiving the submission 

20 under subsection (a)(2)(B), the Legislative Clerk shall add 

21 the information from the notice of intent to object to the 

22 applicable Calendar section entitled ‘‘Notices of Intent to 

23 Object to Proceeding’’ created by Public Law 110–81. 

24 Each section shall include the name of each Senator filing 

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1 ter covered by the calendar to which the notice of intent 

2 to object relates, and the date the notice of intent to object 

3 was filed. 

4 (c) REMOVAL.—A Senator may have a notice of in5 tent to object relating to that Senator removed from a cal6 endar to which it was added under subsection (b) by sub7 mitting for inclusion in the Congressional Record the fol8 lowing notice: 

9 ‘‘I, Senator lllll, do not object to 

10 lllllll, dated lllll.’’ The first 

11 blank shall be filled with the name of the Senator, 

12 the second blank shall be filled with the name of the 

13 covered request, the name of the measure or matter 

14 and, if applicable, the calendar number, and the 

15 third blank shall be filled with the date of the sub16 mission to the Congressional Record under this sub17 section. 

18 (d) OBJECTING ON BEHALF OF A MEMBER.—If a 

19 Senator who has notified his or her leader of an intent 

20 to object to a covered request fails to submit a notice of 

21 intent to object under subsection (a)(2)(B) within 1 ses22 sion day following an objection to a covered request by 

23 the leader or his or her designee on that Senator’s behalf, 

24 the Legislative Clerk shall list the Senator who made the 


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1 objection to the covered request in the applicable ‘‘Notice 

2 of Intent to Object to Proceeding’’ calendar section. 

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