[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 Any motion, amendment, or resolution may be withdrawn 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            to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave.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.