[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 1 (Tuesday, January 6, 2009)]
[Senate]
[Page S6]
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                      UNANIMOUS CONSENT AGREEMENT

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I send to the desk en bloc 12 unanimous 
consent requests and I ask for their immediate consideration en bloc; 
that the requests be agreed to en bloc, that the motion to reconsider 
the adoption of these requests be laid upon the table and that they 
appear separately in the record.
  Before the Chair rules, I would like to point out these requests are 
routine, done at the beginning of each new Congress, and they entail 
issues such as authority for the Committee on Standards of Official 
Conduct to meet, authorizing the Secretary to receive reports at the 
desk, establishing leader time each day, and floor privileges for House 
Parliamentarians.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The requests read as follows:

       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, the Ethics Committee be 
     authorized to meet during the session of the Senate.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, there be a limitation of 15 
     minutes each upon any roll call vote, with the warning signal 
     to be sounded at the midway point, beginning at the last 7\1/
     2\ minutes, and when roll call votes are of 10-minute 
     duration, the warning signal be sounded at the beginning of 
     the last 7\1/2\ minutes.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that during the 
     111th Congress, it be in order for the Secretary of the 
     Senate to receive reports at the desk when presented by a 
     Senator at any time during the day of the session of the 
     Senate.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the majority 
     and minority leaders may daily have up to 10 minutes each on 
     each calendar day following the prayer and disposition of the 
     reading of, or the approval of, the Journal.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
     Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives and his five 
     assistants be given the privileges of the floor during the 
     111th Congress.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that, 
     notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXVIII, conference 
     reports and statements accompanying them not be printed as 
     Senate reports when such conference reports and statements 
     have been printed as a House report unless specific request 
     is made in the Senate in each instance to have such a report 
     printed.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee 
     on Appropriations be authorized during the 111th Congress to 
     file reports during adjournments or recesses of the Senate on 
     appropriations bills, including joint resolutions, together 
     with any accompanying notices of motions to suspend rule XVI, 
     pursuant to rule V, for the purpose of offering certain 
     amendments to such bills or joint resolutions, which proposed 
     amendments shall be printed.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that, for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, the Secretary of the Senate 
     be authorized to make technical and clerical corrections in 
     the engrossments of all Senate-passed bills and resolutions, 
     Senate amendments to House bills and resolutions, Senate 
     amendments to House amendments to Senate bills and 
     resolutions, and Senate amendments to House amendments to 
     Senate amendments to House bills or resolutions.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, when the Senate is in recess 
     or adjournment, the Secretary of the Senate is authorized to 
     receive messages from the President of the United States, 
     and--with the exception of House bills, joint resolutions and 
     concurrent resolutions--messages from the House of 
     Representatives; and that they be appropriately referred; and 
     that the President of the Senate, the President pro tempore, 
     and the Acting President pro tempore be authorized to sign 
     duly enrolled bills and joint resolutions.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, Senators be allowed to leave 
     at the desk with the Journal Clerk the names of two staff 
     members who will be granted the privilege of the floor during 
     the consideration of the specific matter noted, and that the 
     Sergeant-at-Arms be instructed to rotate such staff members 
     as space allows.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, it be in order to refer 
     treaties and nominations on the day when they are received 
     from the President, even when the Senate has no executive 
     session that day.
       Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that for the 
     duration of the 111th Congress, Senators may be allowed to 
     bring to the desk bills, joint resolutions, concurrent 
     resolutions, and simple resolutions, for referral to 
     appropriate committees.

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