    [United States Senate Manual, 104th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 104-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 13-14]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            15                             RULE XV

                                   AMENDMENTS AND MOTIONS

          15.1      1. All motions and amendments shall be reduced to
                writing, if desired by the Presiding Officer or by any
                Senator, and shall be read before the same shall be debated.
          15.2      2. Any motion, amendment, or resolution may be withdrawn
                or modified by the mover at any time before a decision,
                amendment, or ordering of the yeas and nays, except a motion
                to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave.
          15.3      3. If the question in debate contains several
                propositions, any Senator may have the same divided, except
                a motion to strike out and insert, which shall not be
                divided; but the rejection of a motion to strike out and
                insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to strike
                out and insert a different proposition; nor shall it prevent
                a motion simply to strike out; nor shall the rejection of a
                motion to strike out prevent a motion to strike out and
                insert. But pending a motion to strike out and insert, the
                part to be stricken out and the part to be inserted shall
                each be regarded for the purpose of amendment as a question,
                and motions to amend the part to be stricken out shall have
                precedence.
          15.4      4. When an amendment proposed to any pending measure is
                laid on the table, it shall not carry with it, or prejudice,
                such measure.

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          15.5      5. It shall not be in order to consider any proposed
                committee amendment (other than a technical, clerical, or
                conforming amendment) which contains any significant matter
                not within the jurisdiction of the committee proposing such
                amendment.