    [United States Senate Manual, 104th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 104-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 19-20]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            20                             RULE XX

                                     QUESTIONS OF ORDER

          20.1      1. A question of order may be raised at any stage of the
                proceedings, except when the Senate is voting or
                ascertaining the presence of a quorum, and, unless submitted
                to the Senate, shall be decided by the Presiding Officer
                without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate. When an
                appeal is taken, any subsequent question of order which may
                arise before the decision of such appeal shall be decided by
                the Presiding Officer without debate; and every appeal
                therefrom shall be decided at once, and without debate; and
                any appeal may be laid on the table without prejudice to the
                pending proposition, and thereupon shall be held as
                affirming the decision of the Presiding Officer.
          20.2      2. The Presiding Officer may submit any question of
                order for the decision of the Senate.

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