[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 502 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 502

                    Eliminating secret Senate holds.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 27, 2010

   Mr. Wyden (for himself and Mr. Grassley) submitted the following 
     resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules and 
                             Administration

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                               RESOLUTION


 
                    Eliminating secret Senate holds.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. ELIMINATING SECRET SENATE HOLDS.

    Rule VII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``7. (a) The majority and minority leaders of the Senate or their 
designees shall recognize a notice of intent of a Senator who is a 
member of their caucus to object to proceeding to a measure or matter 
only if the Senator--
            ``(1) submits the notice of intent in writing to the 
        appropriate leader or their designee and grants in the notice 
        permission for the leader or designee to object in the 
        Senator's name; and
            ``(2) not later than 2 session days after the submission 
        under clause (1), submits for inclusion in the Congressional 
        Record and in the applicable calendar section described in 
        subparagraph (b) the following notice:
    ```I, Senator ___, intend to object to proceeding to ___, dated 
___.'.
    ``(b) The Secretary of the Senate shall maintain for both the 
Senate Calendar of Business and the Senate Executive Calendar a 
separate section entitled `Notices of Intent to Object to Proceeding'. 
Each section shall include the name of each Senator filing a notice 
under subparagraph (a)(2), the measure or matter covered by the 
calendar that the Senator objects to, and the date the objection was 
filed.
    ``(c) A Senator may have an item relating to that Senator removed 
from a calendar to which it was added under subparagraph (b) by 
submitting for inclusion in the Congressional Record the following 
notice:
    ```I, Senator ___, do not object to proceeding to ____, dated 
____.'.''.
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