    [United States Senate Manual, 104th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 104-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 10-11]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            13                            RULE XIII

                                       RECONSIDERATION

          13.1      1. When a question has been decided by the Senate, any
                Senator voting with the prevailing side or who has not

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                voted may, on the same day or on either of the next two days
                of actual session thereafter, move a reconsideration; and if
                the Senate shall refuse to reconsider such a motion entered,
                or if such a motion is withdrawn by leave of the Senate, or
                if upon reconsideration the Senate shall affirm its first
                decision, no further motion to reconsider shall be in order
                unless by unanimous consent. Every motion to reconsider
                shall be decided by a majority vote, and may be laid on the
                table without affecting the question in reference to which
                the same is made, which shall be a final disposition of the
                motion.
          13.2      2. When a bill, resolution, report, amendment, order, or
                message, upon which a vote has been taken, shall have gone
                out of the possession of the Senate and been communicated to
                the House of Representatives, the motion to reconsider shall
                be accompanied by a motion to request the House to return
                the same; which last motion shall be acted upon immediately,
                and without debate, and if determined in the negative shall
                be a final disposition of the motion to reconsider.