[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 11 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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.


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                   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

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                               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.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. ELIMINATING SECRET SENATE HOLDS.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Covered request.--This standing order shall apply to a 
        notice of intent to object to the following covered requests:
                    (A) A unanimous consent request to proceed to a 
                bill, resolution, joint resolution, concurrent 
                resolution, conference report, or amendment between the 
                Houses.
                    (B) A unanimous consent request to pass a bill or 
                joint resolution or adopt a resolution, concurrent 
                resolution, conference report, or the disposition of an 
                amendment between the Houses.
                    (C) A unanimous consent request for disposition of 
                a nomination.
            (2) Recognition of notice of intent.--The majority and 
        minority leaders of the Senate or their designees shall 
        recognize a notice of intent to object to a covered request of 
        a Senator who is a member of their caucus if the Senator--
                    (A) submits the notice of intent to object in 
                writing to the appropriate leader and grants in the 
                notice of intent to object permission for the leader or 
                designee to object in the Senator's name; and
                    (B) not later than 1 session day after submitting 
                the notice of intent to object to the appropriate 
                leader, submits a copy of the notice of intent to 
                object to the Congressional Record and to the 
                Legislative Clerk for inclusion in the applicable 
                calendar section described in subsection (b).
            (3) Form of notice.--To be recognized by the appropriate 
        leader a Senator shall submit the following notice of intent to 
        object:
                    ``I, Senator _______, intend to object to ________, 
                dated _______. I will submit a copy of this notice to 
                the Legislative Clerk and the Congressional Record 
                within 1 session day and I give my permission to the 
                objecting Senator to object in my name.'' The first 
                blank shall be filled with the name of the Senator, the 
                second blank shall be filled with the name of the 
                covered request, the name of the measure or matter and, 
                if applicable, the calendar number, and the third blank 
                shall be filled with the date that the notice of intent 
                to object is submitted.
    (b) Calendar.--Upon receiving the submission under subsection 
(a)(2)(B), the Legislative Clerk shall add the information from the 
notice of intent to object to the applicable Calendar section entitled 
``Notices of Intent to Object to Proceeding'' created by Public Law 
110-81. Each section shall include the name of each Senator filing a 
notice under subsection (a)(2)(B), the measure or matter covered by the 
calendar to which the notice of intent to object relates, and the date 
the notice of intent to object was filed.
    (c) Removal.--A Senator may have a notice of intent to object 
relating to that Senator removed from a calendar to which it was added 
under subsection (b) by submitting for inclusion in the Congressional 
Record the following notice:
            ``I, Senator _____, do not object to _______, dated 
        _____.'' The first blank shall be filled with the name of the 
        Senator, the second blank shall be filled with the name of the 
        covered request, the name of the measure or matter and, if 
        applicable, the calendar number, and the third blank shall be 
        filled with the date of the submission to the Congressional 
        Record under this subsection.
    (d) Objecting on Behalf of a Member.--If a Senator who has notified 
his or her leader of an intent to object to a covered request fails to 
submit a notice of intent to object under subsection (a)(2)(B) within 1 
session day following an objection to a covered request by the leader 
or his or her designee on that Senator's behalf, the Legislative Clerk 
shall list the Senator who made the objection to the covered request in 
the applicable ``Notice of Intent to Object to Proceeding'' calendar 
section.
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