[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 1 (Thursday, January 3, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S7]
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                       UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUESTS

  Mr. REID. Madam 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, and that they appear separately 
in the Record.
  Before the Chair rules, however, I would like to point out that these 
requests are routine and done at the beginning of each new Congress. 
They entail issues such as authorizing the Ethics Committee to meet, 
authorizing the Secretary to receive reports at the desk, establishing 
leader time each day, and privileges of the floor for the House 
Parliamentarians.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection to agreeing to these 
unanimous consent requests en bloc?
  Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The unanimous consent requests agreed to en bloc are as follows:

       1. That for the duration of the 113th Congress, the Ethics 
     Committee be authorized to meet during the session of the 
     Senate;
       2. That for the duration of the 113th Congress, there be a 
     limitation of 15 minutes each upon any rollcall vote, with 
     the warning signal to be sounded at the midway point, 
     beginning at the last 7 1/2 minutes, and when rollcall votes 
     are of 10-minute duration, the warning signal be sounded at 
     the beginning of the last 7 1/2 minutes;
       3. That during the 113th 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;
       4. 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;
       5. That the Parliamentarian of the House of Representatives 
     and his five assistants be given the privileges of the floor 
     during the 113th Congress;
       6. 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;
       7. That the Committee on Appropriations be authorized 
     during the 113th 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;
       8. That, for the duration of the 113th Congress, the 
     Secretary of the Senate be authorized to make technical and 
     clerical corrections in the engrossments of all Senate-passed 
     bills and joint 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;
       9. That for the duration of the 113th 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;
       10. That for the duration of the 113th 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 
     staff members as space allows;
       11. That for the duration of the 113th 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; and
       12. That for the duration of the 113th 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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