[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 3, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S1189]
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    NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE SENATE BY SENATORS 
                          WELLSTONE AND HARKIN

  In accordance to Rule V of the Standing Rules of the Seante, I (for 
myself and for Mr. Harkin) hereby give notice in writing that it is my 
intention to move to suspend the following portions of the Rules of 
Procedure and Practice in the Senate When Sitting on Impeachment Trials 
in regard to deliberations by Senators on the article of impeachment 
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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