[United States Senate Manual, 110th Congress]
[S. Doc. 110-1]
[Standing Rules of the Senate]
[Pages 101-115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                        INDEX TO STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

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                                                                 Senate 
                                                                 Manual 
                                                                 Section

                                          A

            Absence of:
                Senators...............................................6
                Vice President.........................................1
            Acting President pro tempore, duties of the 
              Chair.......................................1.1., 1.2, 1.3
            Additional numbers of documents, printing of............11.5
            Additional views in committee reports.................26.10c
            Adjourn, motion to............................6.4, 9.1, 22.1
            Aging, Special Committee on, membership of.............25.3b
            Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Committee 
              on...................................................25.1a
            Amend, motion to........................................22.1
            Amendment(s):
                Committee, not within jurisdiction..................15.5
                Congressionally directed spending.....................44
                Division of a question..............................15.3
                Not in order........................................14.7
                Of the rules...........................................5
                Post-cloture........................................22.2
                Reduced to writing..........................15.1a, 15.1b
                Tabled without prejudice to the bill..........14.8, 16.4
                To appropriations bills...............................16
                Treaties..............................................30
            Announcement of committee hearings.....................26.4a
            Appeal from ruling of the Chair.........................19.4
            Appointment of:
                Committees............................................24
                Senator to the Chair.................................1.3
                Senator, by Governor.................................2.2
            Appropriations bills:
                Amendments, restrictions on...........................16
                New spending authority.............................25.1b
                Points of order.......................................16
                Private claims prohibited...........................16.5
                Procedure on..........................................16
                Reappropriating unexpended balances.................16.8
                Reports to identify items not required to 
                  carry out provisions of existing law..............16.7
                Rescission of appropriations.......................25.1b
            Appropriations, Committee on:
                Excepted from certain procedures......17.4b, 26.3-26.13b
                Jurisdiction of....................................25.1b
            Armed Services, Committee on...........................25.1c

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            Assistant Secretary of the Senate, duties of the 
              Chair..................................................1.2
            Authorization, expenditure, for committees...........26.9a-b

                                          B

            Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Committee 
              on...................................................25.1d
            Bills and resolutions:
                See Amendment(s).
                See Appropriations bills.
                Calendar call...................................7.2, 8.1
                Enrollment of.......................................14.5
                Introduction of..................................7, 14.1
                Motion to commit..............................14.7, 22.1
                Over, under the rule................................6, 9
                Pension bills................................14.9, 14.10
                Preambles...........................................14.8
                Printing of....................................11.4-11.6
                Private bills......................................14.10
                Reading of..........................................14.2
                Reference to committees...........................14, 16
                Reported from committees. See also Reports, 
                  committee.....14.4, 17.4, 17.5, 26.10b, 26.10c, 26.11, 
                                                                   26.12
                Signing enrolled bills...............................1.3
                To lie over one day.................................14.6
            Broadcasting of committee hearings.....................26.5c
            Budget, Committee on the...............................25.1e
                Excepted from certain procedures....26.4a, 26.5a, 26.8a, 
                                                                  26.11a
            Business:
                Continued from session to session.....................18
                Executive or confidential.............................29
                Morning business.......................................7
                Order of...............................................8
                Special orders...................................8.1, 10
            ``Byrd rule.'' See 2 U.S.C. 644. [Senate Manual 
              Sec. 646]

                                          C

            Calendar of bills and resolutions:
                Calendar Monday......................................7.2
                Calendar, call of...............................7.2, 8.1
                Consideration of items on.......................7.2, 8.1
                Placing of items on.................................14.4
            Calendar of special orders..............................10.1
            Candidates of U.S. Senate, financial disclosure 
              requirements. See 5 U.S.C. App. [Senate Manual 
              Sec. 1018]
            Capitol, Senate wing, regulation of.....................33.2
            Certificates of election or appointments of Senator:
                Forms of.............................................2.3
                Record of............................................2.2
            Chair. See also Presiding Officer:
                Order in the Chamber or Galleries, 
                  enforcement.......................................19.6
                Performance of duties by others.................1.2, 1.3
                Rulings, appeal from................................19.4

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            Chairman, committee:
                Appointment of........................................24
                Duty to report approved measures promptly.........26.10b
                Limitations on service.............................25.4e
                Ranking majority member to serve in absence 
                  of................................................26.3
                Resignation of......................................24.4
            Chaplain, daily prayer by..........................4.1a, 4.2
            Charitable contribution in lieu of honorarium...35.3b, 35.4a
            Claims, private..................................14.10, 16.5
            Closed session of:
                Committees.........................................26.5b
                Conferences.........................................28.6
                Senate..............................................21.2
            Cloture procedure:
                Extension of debate.................................22.2
                Filing the cloture motion...........................22.2
                Quorum required.....................................22.2
                Reading of Journal dispensed with...................4.1b
                30-hour limit.......................................22.2
            Code of Official Conduct. See Senate Code of 
              Official Conduct.
            Commencement of daily sessions.............................4
            Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Committee 
              on...................................................25.1f
            Commit, motion to.................................14.7, 22.1
            Committee powers..........................................26
            Committee(s), joint:
                Economic...........................................25.3b
                Taxation...........................................25.3c
            Committee(s), select:
                Ethics.............................................25.3c
                Intelligence.......................................25.3b
            Committee(s), special:
                Aging..............................................25.3b
            Committee(s), standing:
                Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.........25.1a, 25.2
                Appropriations. See also Appropriations, 
                  Committee on...............................25.1b, 25.2
                Armed Services...............................25.1c, 25.2
                Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs..........25.1d, 25.2
                Budget. See also Budget, Committee on the...25.1e, 25.3a
                Commerce, Science, and Transportation........25.1f, 25.2
                Energy and Natural Resources.................25.1g, 25.2
                Environment and Public Works.................25.1h, 25.2
                Finance......................................25.1i, 25.2
                Foreign Relations............................25.1j, 25.2
                Governmental Affairs.........................25.1k, 25.2
                Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.......25.1l, 25.2
                Judiciary....................................25.1m, 25.2
                Rules and Administration. See also Rules and 
                  Administration, Committee on..............25.1n, 25.3a
                Small Business and Entrepreneurship..........25.1o,25.3a
                Veterans' Affairs...........................25.1p, 25.3a
            Committee(s):
                Amendments, not within jurisdiction.................15.5

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                Appointment of........................................24
                Chairman. See Chairman, committee.
                Conference, reports of................................28
                Discharge, motion to...............................17.4a
                Expenditure authorizations..........................26.9
                Hearings. See Hearings, committee.
                Investigations, authority for.......................26.1
                Jurisdiction, questions of..........................17.1
                Legislation jointly or sequentially referred
                                                                    17.3
                Legislative review by..............................26.8a
                Meetings. See Meetings of committees.
                Membership. See Membership of committees.
                Minority staff........................27.1d, 27.2a-27.2c
                Powers, continuous..................................25.1
                Procedure.............................................26
                Proxies, use of.....................................26.7
                Quorum.............................................26.7a
                Records. See Records of committees.
                Reference of bills and resolutions to...14.3, 17.2, 17.3
                Report on committee activities.....................26.8b
                Reports. See Reports, committee.
                Rules of............................................26.2
                Sessions of..........................26.4, 26.5b-c, 26.6
                Sitting while the Senate is in session.............26.5a
                Staff.................................................27
                Subcommittees, limitation on service on.....25.4b, 25.4e
                Subpoena power......................................26.1
                Voting..............................................26.7
                Witnesses.....................................26.1, 26.4
            Communications from heads of departments.................7.1
            Computer facilities, restrictions on use................40.5
            Conference committees, reports of:
                Adding new matter............................28.2, 44.8a
                Public availability................................28.9a
                Striking matter committed by both Houses.........28.2a-b
            Confidential business, disclosure prohibited............29.5
            Confidential proceedings to be kept in separate 
              book..................................................4.1d
            Conflict of interest:
                Ethics rule........................................37.5b
                Voting..............................................12.3
            Congressional Record:
                Committee rules of procedure to be published 
                  in................................................26.2
                Memorials and petitions, summary to be 
                  printed in.........................................7.5
                Nominations to be printed in.......................31.7b
            Constituent services......................................43
            Contribution (charitable) in lieu of honorarium 
                                                            35.3b, 35.4a
            Contribution converted to personal use 
              prohibited............................................38.2
            Contributions, political, to nominees for U.S. Senator. See 
              2 U.S.C. Sec. Sec. 431-437. [Senate Manual 
              Sec. Sec. 399.8-399.11]
            ``Cordon rule'' (Rule 26, para. 12)....................26.12
            Conventions, National Party............................35.1d
            Credentials, presentation of...............................2

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                                          D

            Daily sessions, commencement of............................4
            Debate:
                Close, motion to. See Cloture procedure.............22.2
                Germaneness of.....................................19.1b
                Procedure in..........................................19
            Discharge a committee, motion to.......................17.4a
            Disclosure of confidential business prohibited 
                                                                    29.5
            Disclosure of financial interests by Senators, 
              officers and employees of the Senate....................34
            Discrimination prohibited in employment 
              practices...............................................42
            Division of a question..................................15.3

                                          E

            Earmarks. See Spending, ``Congessionally 
              Directed''..............................................44
            Election of Senators, certificates..................2.2, 2.3
            Employees of the Senate:
                Authority of Senators and officers over 
                  employees........................................37.12
                Committee employees. See Committee(s): Staff.
                Conflict of interest..................................37
                Employment discrimination prohibited..................42
                Employment negotiations...........................37.14c
                Financial disclosure..................................34
                Floor privilege.......................................23
                Foreign travel..................................35.2, 39
                Gifts.................................................35
                Non-government employees, use of restricted 
                                                                   41.4b
                Outside earned income.................................36
                Political fund activity...............................41
                Post-employment lobbying restrictions...............37.9
                Representation of petitioners..................43.1-43.3
                Temporary, 90-day limit.............................41.4
            Energy and Natural Resources, Committee on.............25.1g
            Enrollment of bills and resolutions.....................14.5
                Signing of same......................................1.3
            Environment and Public Works, Committee on.............25.1h
            Ethics Rules. See Senate Code of Official 
              Conduct.................................................41
            Ethics, Select Committee on, membership................25.4b
            Executive sessions of the Senate..........................29
                Motion to proceed to executive business.............22.1
                Nominations...........................................31
                President furnished with records......................32
                Proceedings to be kept in separate book.............4.1d
                Treaties..............................................30
            Expenditure authorizations, committee...................26.9

                                          F

            Fair employment practices.................................42
            Filing of committee reports...........................26.10b
            Finance, Committee on..................................25.1i

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            Financial disclosure. See also 5 U.S.C. App. 
              [Senate Manual Sec. 1018]...............................34
            Floor:
                Privilege of..........................................23
                Recognition.........................................19.1
            Foreign Relations, Committee on........................25.1j
            Foreign travel by Senators, officers and 
              employees.........................................35.2, 39
                Advance authorization and disclosure..................39
            Franking privilege:
                See also Mass mailing.
                Use of official funds...............................40.2

                                          G

            Galleries:
                News media, regulation of...........................33.2
                Occupants of, no Senator shall call 
                  attention to......................................19.7
                Order in, enforcement...............................19.6
            Germaneness of debate..................................19.1b
            Gifts to Senators, officers, employees, spouses 
              and dependents. See also 2 U.S.C. 31-2. 
              [Senate Manual Sec. 308]................................35
            Governmental Affairs, Committee on.....................25.1k

                                          H

            Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 
              Committee on........................................25.1l.
            Hearings, committee
                Announcement of....................................26.4a
                Authority for.......................................26.1
                Availability........................................27.5
                Broadcasting/televising of.........................26.5c
                Closed.............................................26.5b
                Executive decisions.................................17.5
                Printing of........................................26.5c
                Procedure.............................................26
                Scheduling.........................................26.4a
                Staff summary of witness testimony.................26.4c
                Stenographic assistance for reporting of............26.1
                Witnesses....................................26.1, 26.4b
            House of Representatives:
                Bills or messages from....................7.1, 9.2, 14.3
                Concurrence required for printing additional 
                  copies at a cost exceeding the sum 
                  established by law..............................11.4-5
                Messages to............................................9
                Motion to request return of an item from.............8.2

                                          I

            Impeachment proceedings to be kept in separate 
              book..................................................4.1d
            Indian Affairs, Committee on, membership...............25.3c
            Injunction of secrecy...................................29.3
            Intelligence, Select Committee on, membership..........25.3b
            Investigations, committee authority for.................26.1

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                                          J

            Joint Committee on Taxation, membership................25.3c
            Joint Economic Committee, membership...................25.3b
            Joint referral to committees of proposed 
              legislation...........................................17.3
            Journal:
                Contents of.........................................4.1c
                Legislative, executive, confidential, and 
                  impeachment proceedings to be kept in 
                  separate books....................................4.1d
                Reading of................................4.1, 9.1, 28.1
            Judiciary, Committee on the............................25.1m
            Jurisdiction of committees.......................25.1a-25.1p

                                          L

            Lame-duck foreign travel prohibited.......................39
            Leaders, Majority and Minority:
                Authority over certain employees................37.12g-i
                Cloture, control of additional time.................22.2
                Committee membership, temporary increases in
                                                                   25.4c
                Committees, permission to meet while Senate 
                  is in session....................................26.5a
                Joint referral of bills............................17.3a
                2-day rule waiver...................................17.5
            ``Leaks.'' Disclosure of confidential business 
                                                                    29.3
            Legislation jointly referred to committees..............17.3
            Legislative proceedings to be kept in separate 
              book..................................................4.1d
            Legislative review by standing committees:
                Appropriations and Budget Committees 
                  excepted.........................................26.7b
                Due by Mar. 31 in odd years........................26.8b
            Lobbying, restrictions on former Members or 
              employees..........................................37.8-12

                                          M

            Majority Leader. See Leaders, Majority and Minority.
            Mass mailing under the frank:
                Exceptions..........................................40.4
                Pre-election restrictions...........................40.1
                Public inspection, available for...................40.3b
                Quarterly reports..................................40.3a
                Registration of mass mailings with Secretary 
                  of the Senate....................................40.3a
            Meetings of committees:
                See also Hearings, committee
                Broadcasting or televising.........................26.5c
                Closed and open sessions...........................26.5b
                Order, maintenance of..............................26.5d
                Permission to meet while Senate is in 
                  session..........................................26.5a
                Public announcement................................26.4a
                Public availability................................26.5e
                Record of (transcript or electronic)...............26.5e
                Regular meeting days................................26.3
                Requesting a special meeting........................26.3
                Scheduling.........................................26.4a

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            Membership of committees...........................25.2-25.4
                Appointment of........................................24
                Ex officio.........................................25.4a
                Limitations and exceptions in respect to............25.4
                Temporary increases in (by leadership 
                  agreement).......................................25.4c
            Memorials. See Petitions or memorials
            Messages from:
                House of Representatives........................7.1, 9.1
                President of the United States..................7.1, 9.1
            Messages to:
                House of Representatives.............................9.2
                President of the United States.......................9.2
            Minority Leader. See Leaders, Majority and Minority
            Minority views in committee reports...................26.10c
            Minority:
                Staff of committees...................................27
                Witnesses before committees.........................26.1
            Morning business...........................................7
            Morning hour, conclusion of.......................7.2, 8, 19
            Motion to:
                Adjourn.....................................6.4, 9, 22.1
                Amend...............................................22.1
                Amend or correct the Journal.........................4.1
                Amend the part to be stricken.......................15.3
                Change order of special orders......................10.2
                Close debate. See also Cloture procedure............22.2
                Commit a bill or resolution...................14.7, 22.1
                Compel the presence of absent Senators...............6.4
                Continue consideration of a subject..................7.2
                Discharge a committee from consideration of 
                  a matter.........................................17.4a
                Extend post-cloture debate..........................22.2
                Lay before the Senate bills or other matters 
                  from the President or the House....................7.3
                Lay on the table....................................22.1
                Postpone indefinitely...............................22.1
                Print documents...............................11.4, 11.5
                Proceed to consideration of a change in 
                  Standing Rules.......................................8
                Proceed to executive business.......................22.1
                Proceed to other business..............................8
                Recess..............................................22.1
                Reconsider............................................13
                Reconsider a nomination........................31.3-31.5
                Reduced to writing...............................15.1a-b
                Refer a matter to committee........................17.3a
                Request return of an item from the House............13.2
                Strike out and insert...............................15.3
                Suspend, modify, or amend any rule...................5.1
            Motions:
                Precedence of.......................................15.3
                To be in writing if requested...................15, 22.2
                Withdrawal or modification of by mover..............15.2

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                                          N

            Nominations:
                Injunction of secrecy...............................31.2
                Proceedings on........................................31
            Noncurrent records of the Senate........................11.2

                                          O

            Oath, Senatorial...........................................3
            Objection to reading a paper............................11.3
            Offensive references to another Senator or State 
              prohibited..........................................19.2-5
            Office accounts of Senators, unofficial, 
              prohibited..............................................38
            Office expenses, use of contributed funds 
              prohibited............................................38.2
            Officers of the Senate:
                Authority over employees.....................27.2, 35.2b
                Conflict interest.....................................37
                Financial disclosure................................34.3
                Foreign travel..............................35.1c, 39.1b
                Gifts.................................................35
                Outside earned income.................................36
                Political fund activity...............................41
                Post-employment lobbying restrictions..............37.9c
            Official funds, use of for mass mailing...................40
            Open sessions:
                Committees.........................................26.5b
                Conferences.........................................28.6
            Order:
                In Chamber or Galleries, enforcement................19.6
                In committees, enforcement.........................26.5d
                Of business............................................8
                Of special orders................................8.1, 10
                Questions of..........................................20
            Outside earned income.....................................36

                                          P

            Papers:
                Objection to reading................................11.3
                Printing of...................................11.4, 11.5
                Transfer of noncurrent records......................11.2
                Withdrawal of.......................................11.1
            ``Pastore rule'' (Rule 19, para. 1(b)).................19.1b
            Pecuniary interest...............................44.6a, 44.9
            Pension bills....................................14.9, 14.10
            Personnel on detail from other agencies...........27.3, 27.4
            Petitions or memorials:
                Presentation of........................................7
                Reference of.........................................7.4
                Summary of, to be printed in Congressional 
                  Record.............................................7.5
            Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the U.S................4
            Points of order:
                Amendments not within committee's 
                  jurisdiction......................................17.1
                Appropriations bill proposing new or general 
                  legislation.......................................16.2

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                Conference report, new matter in....................28.2
                Certification of earmarks.............................44
                During cloture proceedings..........................22.2
                Measure reported from a committee.................26.10c
                New directed spending.........................44.5, 44.6
                New matter added in conference.....................28.2a
                Reappropriating unexpended balances.................16.8
                Restriction on expenditure of funds 
                  appropriated................................16.2, 16.6
                Striking matter committed by both Houses............28.2
            Political fund activity by officers and employees:
                Compliance with Code of Conduct...............41.2-41.4c
            Post-employment revolving door..........................37.9
            Postpone, motion to.....................................22.1
            Powers, committee.................................25.1, 26.1
            Prayer, daily, by Chaplain.................................4
            Preambles...............................................14.8
            Precedence of motions.............................15.3, 22.1
            Presentation of credentials................................2
            President of the United States
                Bills or messages from...............................7.3
                Communications, confidential, from..................29.3
                Former Presidents entitled to address the 
                  Senate............................................19.8
                Meeting with Senate on executive business...........29.1
                Messages to..........................................7.1
                Transcript of executive records.......................32
            President pro tempore. see also Presiding Officer:
                Vice President, absence of.............................1
            Presiding Officer. See also Chair.
                Bills or other matters from the President or 
                  the House, may at any time lay before the 
                  Senate.............................................7.1
                Calling a Senator to order..........................19.4
                Cloture debate, to keep time during.................22.2
                Directing a Senator to take his/her seat............19.4
                Order in the Chamber or galleries, 
                  enforcement.......................................19.6
                President pro tempore..................................1
                Recognition of a Senator who desires to 
                  speak.............................................19.1
                Rules for regulation of Senate wing, 
                  enforcement.......................................33.2
                Rulings, appeal from................................19.4
            Printing of:
                Additional numbers of documents.....................11.5
                Bills and resolutions...............................11.6
                Committee reports..................................7, 34
                Conference reports..................................28.6
                Hearings, committee...............................26.10a
                Papers received from the House......................11.4
            Private bills and claims...................14.9, 14.10, 16.5
            Privilege of the floor....................................23
            Procedure, committee......................................26
            Proxies, use of in committee............................26.7

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                                          Q

            Question:
                Division of a.......................................15.3
                Of absence of a quorum.................................6
                Of order..............................................20
            Quorum:
                Absence of, question of..............................6.3
                For cloture vote....................................22.2
                For unanimous consent to take a final vote 
                  on a specific date................................12.4
                Of a committee.....................................26.7a
                Of the Senate........................................6.1
                Sergeant at Arms to obtain attendance of 
                  absent Senators....................................6.4

                                          R

            Radio and television:
                Broadcasting of committee meetings.................26.5c
                Studios, restrictions on use........................40.6
            Ranking majority member of a committee to serve 
              in absence of the chairman............................26.3
            Ratification of treaties..................................30
            Reading of:
                Bills and joint resolutions.........................14.2
                Journal.........................................4.1, 9.1
                Paper, objection to.................................11.3
            Recess, motion to.......................................22.1
            Reconsideration...........................................13
            Records of committees:
                Actions............................................26.5e
                Availability to all members......................26.4b-c
                Proceedings (open or closed).......................26.5b
                Separate from chairman's office records...........26.10a
                Votes..............................................26.7b
            Records of the Senate, noncurrent.......................11.2
            Records, financial disclosure...........................34.2
            Reference, to committees.......................5, 10, 12, 13
            Regulation of the Senate wing of the Capitol..............33
            Reports, committee:
                Activities during the preceding Congress...........26.8b
                Availability of (2-day rule)........................17.5
                Conference committees.................................28
                Contents required...........................26.11, 26.12
                Cost estimate.....................................26.11a
                Debate equally divided..............................28.5
                Filing of.........................................26.10b
                Legislative review.................................26.8b
                Printing of............................11.4-11.6, 26.10c
                Proposed changes in existing law...................26.8a
                 Regulatory impact statement......................26.11b
                Submission of........................................7.1

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                Supplemental, minority, or additional views 
                                                                  26.10c
                Tabulation of votes cast...........................26.7c
                To identify items not required to carry out 
                  provisions of existing law........................16.1
                To lie over one day................................17.4a
                2-day rule..........................................17.5
            Reports, conference. See Conference reports.
            Reports, financial disclosure..............................1
            Representation by members.................................43
            Restrictions on mass mailings...........................40.1
            Rules and Administration, Committee on:
                Computer facilities, oversight......................40.5
                Floor privilege, regulation of........................17
                Jurisdiction........................................24.n
                Motions to print documents to be referred to
                                                                    11.4
                Personnel detailed from other agencies..............27.4
                Senate wing, regulation of............................33
                Stenographic assistance to committees, 
                  regulations of.......................................1
                Strategic plan for infrastructure support..........25.13
            Rules of committees.......................................26
            Rules of the Senate:
                Continuance in effect from Congress to 
                  Congress...........................................5.2
                Motion to suspend, modify, or amend.............5.1, 8.2
                Suspension by unanimous consent......................5.1

                                          S

            Scheduling of committee sessions...................26.1-26.5
            Secretary of the Senate:
                Assistant Secretary of the Senate....................1.2
                Certificates of election, record of..................2.2
                Duties of the Chair..................................1.2
                Enrollment of bills and resolutions and 
                  presentation of same to the President.............14.5
                Financial disclosure..................................34
                Mass mailings, registration of........................40
                Messages to the President and House to be 
                  delivered by......................................6, 7
                Nominations, duties pertaining to..............31.4-31.7
                Petitions, memorials, bills or resolutions, 
                  function with respect to...........................7.6
                Transfer of noncurrent records......................11.2
                Withdrawal of papers..................................11
            Senate Chamber:
                Floor privilege.......................................23
                For Senate use only.................................33.1
                Galleries...............................19.6, 19.7, 33.2
                Order in, enforcement...............................19.6
                Regulation of.......................................33.2
                Smoking prohibited..................................33.1
            Senate Code of Official Conduct:
                Conflict of interest..................................37
                Employment practices..................................42

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                Employment negotiations...............................42
                Financial disclosure, public..........................34
                Foreign travel........................................39
                Franking privilege.............................40.1-40.5
                Gifts.................................................35
                Outside earned income.................................36
                Personal use of contributed funds prohibited
                                                                       1
                Political fund activity...............................41
                Post-employment lobbying restrictions.........37.8, 37.9
                Radio and television studios........................40.6
                Representation by members.............................43
                Unofficial office accounts prohibited..................1
            Senate floor, persons admitted to.........................23
            Senate Office Buildings, regulation of..................33.2
            Senate wing of the Capitol, regulation of...............33.2
            Senators:
                Absence of.............................................6
                Appointment by Governor..............................2.2
                Certificates of election or appointment.............2, 3
                Code of Official Conduct. See Senate Code of Official 
                  Conduct.
                Conflict of interest..................................37
                Directed to take his/her seat.......................19.4
                Disparaging references prohibited.............19.2, 19.3
                Employment negotiations............................37.14
                Financial disclosure..................................34
                Foreign travel........................................37
                Franking privilege.............................40.1-40.5
                Gifts...............................................35.1
                Oath of office.........................................3
                Outside earned income.................................36
                Post-employment lobbying restrictions...............37.8
                Radio and television studios, use of................40.6
                Representation of petitioners.......................43.1
            Sergeant at Arms:
                Financial disclosure...............................34.2b
                Quorum, function in obtaining........................6.4
            Sessions:
                Committee. See Meetings of committees.
                Executive. See Executive sessions of the Senate.
                With closed doors.....................................21
            Small Business, Committee on...........................25.1o
            Smoking in Senate Chamber prohibited....................33.1
            Special orders............................................10
            Spending:
                Certification......................................44.1a
                Congressionally directed...........................44.1a
                Identification.....................................44.1a
                Limited tariff benefit................................44
                Limited tax benefit...................................44
                New directed spending..............................44.8a
                Public availability of requests....................44.1a

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            Standing Rules of the Senate:
                Continuance in effect from Congress to 
                  Congress...........................................5.2
                Motion to suspend, modify, or amend..................5.1
                Suspension by unanimous consent......................5.1
            State, offensive references prohibited..................19.3
            Statements of witnesses before committees, staff 
              summary..............................................26.4b
            Stenographic assistance for reporting of 
              committee hearings....................................26.1
            Striking matter committed by both Houses................28.2
                Certification of earmarks..........................44.1a
                New directed spending.........................44.5-44.12
                New matter added in conference.....................28.2c
            Subcommittees, limitation of service on...............29, 30
            Subpoena power of committees............................26.1
            Summary of testimony before committees, by staff
                                                                   26.4c
            Supplemental expenditure authorizations for 
              committees............................................26.9
            Supplemental views in committee reports...............26.10c
            Suspension of the rules....................................5

                                          T

            Table, motion to........................................22.1
            Taxation, Joint Committee on, membership...............25.3c
            Televising of committee hearings.......................26.5c
            Television and Radio Studios:
                Exemption from restrictions.........................40.6
                User restrictions...................................40.6
            Tickets:
                Entertainment and sporting events..................35.1c
                Valuation..........................................35.1a
            Travel expenses, foreign............................35.2, 39
            Travel expenses:
                Certification...................................35.2, 39
                Flight--fair market value.......................35.2, 39
                Reimbursements..................................35.2, 39
            Treaties:
                Amendments..........................................30.1
                Injunction of secrecy.........................29.3, 30.1
                Proceedings on........................................30
            Trust funds. See Rule 34. See also 5 U.S.C. App. 
              6 [Senate Manual Sec. 439]............................34.4
            2-day rule (Rule 17, para. 5)...........................17.5

                                          U

            Unanimous consent:
                To change or withdraw a Senator's vote..............12.1
                To proceed to consideration of a subject........7.2, 8.2
                To reconsider a question............................13.1
                To suspend a rule......................................5
                To suspend reading of the Journal....................4.1
                To take a final vote on a specific date.............12.4
            Unfinished business..............................10.1, 19.1b
            Unofficial office accounts prohibited.....................38

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                                          V

            Veterans' Affairs, Committee on........................25.1p
            Vice President.............................................1
            Voting:
                Changing or withdrawing a Senator's vote..............12
                Committee...........................................26.7
                Conflict of interest................................12.3
                Reconsideration.......................................13
                Senator declining to vote...........................12.2
                Unanimous consent to take a final vote on a 
                  specific date.....................................12.4
                Yeas and nays.......................................12.1

                                          W

            Withdrawal:
                Of motion, amendment, or resolution.................15.2
                Of papers...........................................11.2
            Witnesses, committee:
                Authority to summon.................................26.1
                Selected by minority................................26.4
                To file advance statements.........................26.4b

                                          Y

            Yeas and nays:
                See Voting..........................................12.1
                Conflict of interest................................12.3