[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 91 (Monday, June 24, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S5098]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       AUTHORIZING LEGAL COUNSEL

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent we now proceed to S. 
Res. 185.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title.
  The bill clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 185) to authorize representation by 
     the Senate legal counsel in the case of R. Wayne Patterson v. 
     United States Senate, et al.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the 
resolution.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, this resolution concerns a pro se civil 
action filed in California Federal District Court against the Senate, 
the Vice President, and the Parliamentarian of the Senate. Plaintiff 
claims that the Senate cloture rule is unconstitutional.
  This lawsuit, like previous suits challenging the cloture rule, is 
subject to jurisdictional defenses requiring dismissal. This resolution 
would authorize the Senate Legal Counsel to represent the Senate, the 
Vice President, and the Senate Parliamentarian to seek dismissal of 
this suit.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, 
the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be considered made 
and laid on the table, with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The resolution (S. Res. 185) was agreed to.
  The preamble was agreed to.
  (The resolution, with its preamble, is printed in today's Record 
under ``Submitted Resolutions.'')

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