[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 3, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S1188]
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE SENATE BY SENATORS HARKIN 
                             AND WELLSTONE

  In accordance to Rule V of the Standing Rules of the Senate, I (for 
myself and for Mr. Wellstone) hereby give notice in writing that it is 
my intention to move to suspend the following portions of the Rules of 
Procedures and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment 
Trials in regard to debate by Senators on a motion during the trial of 
President William Jefferson Clinton:
  (1) The phrase ``without debate'' in Rule VII;
  (2) the following portion of Rule XX: ``, unless the Senate shall 
direct the doors to be closed while deliberating upon its decisions. A 
motion to close the doors may be acted upon without objection, or, if 
objection is heard, the motion shall be voted on without debate by the 
yeas and nays, which shall be entered on the record''; and
  (3) In Rule XXIV, the phrases ``without debate'', ``except when the 
doors shall be closed for deliberation, and in that case'' and ``, to 
be had without debate''.

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