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Calendar No. 487 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3657 

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 

JULY 27, 2010 

Mr. WYDEN (for himself, Mr. GRASSLEY, and Mrs. MCCASKILL) introduced 

the following bill; which was read the first time 

JULY 28, 2010 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

A BILL 

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 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. ELIMINATING SECRET SENATE HOLDS. 

4 (a) IN GENERAL.— 

5 (1) COVERED REQUEST.—This standing order 

6 shall apply to a notice of intent to object to the fol7 lowing covered requests: 


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1 (A) A unanimous consent request to pro2 ceed to a bill, resolution, joint resolution, con3 current resolution, conference report, or amend4 ment between the Houses. 

5 (B) A unanimous consent request to pass 

6 a bill or joint resolution or adopt a resolution, 

7 concurrent resolution, conference report, or the 

8 disposition of an amendment between the 

9 Houses. 

10 (C) A unanimous consent request for dis11 position of a nomination. 

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

13 majority and minority leaders of the Senate or their 

14 designees shall recognize a notice of intent to object 

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

16 of their caucus if the Senator— 

17 (A) submits the notice of intent to object 

18 in writing to the appropriate leader and grants 

19 in the notice of intent to object permission for 

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

21 name; and 

22 (B) not later than 1 session day after sub23 mitting the notice of intent to object to the ap24 propriate leader, submits a copy of the notice of 

25 intent to object to the Congressional Record 


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1 and to the Legislative Clerk for inclusion in the 

2 applicable calendar section described in sub3 section (b). 

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

5 appropriate leader a Senator shall submit the fol6 lowing notice of intent to object: 

7 ‘‘I, Senator lllllll, intend to ob8 ject to llllllll, dated 

9 lllllll. I will submit a copy of this 

10 notice to the Legislative Clerk and the Congres11 sional Record within 1 session day and I give 

12 my permission to the objecting Senator to ob13 ject in my name.’’ The first blank shall be filled 

14 with the name of the Senator, the second blank 

15 shall be filled with the name of the covered re16 quest, the name of the measure or matter and, 

17 if applicable, the calendar number, and the 

18 third blank shall be filled with the date that the 

19 notice of intent to object is submitted. 

20 (b) CALENDAR.—Upon receiving the submission 

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

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

23 applicable Calendar section entitled ‘‘Notices of Intent to 

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

25 Each section shall include the name of each Senator filing 


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1 a notice under subsection (a)(2)(B), the measure or mat2 ter covered by the calendar to which the notice of intent 

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

4 was filed. 

5 (c) REMOVAL.—A Senator may have a notice of in6 tent to object relating to that Senator removed from a cal7 endar to which it was added under subsection (b) by sub8 mitting for inclusion in the Congressional Record the fol9 lowing notice: 

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

11 lllllll, dated lllll.’’ The first 

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

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

14 covered request, the name of the measure or matter 

15 and, if applicable, the calendar number, and the 

16 third blank shall be filled with the date of the sub17 mission to the Congressional Record under this sub18 section. 

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

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

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

22 intent to object under subsection (a)(2)(B) within 1 ses23 sion day following an objection to a covered request by 

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

25 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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Calendar No. 487 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 3657 

A BILL 

To establish as a standing order of the Senate that 

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

JULY 28, 2010 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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