    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 84-86]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            40                             RULE XL

                  FRANKING PRIVILEGE AND RADIO AND TELEVISION STUDIOS \81\
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                    \81\ Section 3210 of Title 39, U.S.C., contains
                statutory provisions are parallel to certain provisions of
                rule XL relating to the franking privilege. See Senate
                Manual Sec. 1481.
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          40.1      1. A Senator or an individual who is a candidate for
                nomination for election, or election, to the Senate may not
                use the frank for any mass mailing (as defined in section
                3210(a)(6)(E) \82\ of Title 39, United States Code) if such
                mass mailing is mailed at or delivered to any postal
                facility less than sixty days immediately before the date of
                any primary or general election (whether regular, special,
                or runoff) in which the Senator is a candidate for public
                office or the individual is a candidate for Senator, unless
                the candidacy of the Senator in such election is
                uncontested.\83\
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                    \82\ Citation corrected by S. Res. 187, 101-1, Oct. 2,
                1989, pursuant to Pub. L. 97-69, Oct. 26, 1981.
                    \83\ As amended, S. Res. 224, 103-2, June 21, 1994.

          40.2      2. A Senator shall use only official funds of the
                Senate, including his official Senate allowances, to
                purchase paper, to print, or to prepare any mass mailing
                material which is to be sent out under the frank.
         40.3a      3. (a) When a Senator disseminates information under the
                frank by a mass mailing (as defined in section 3210(a)(6)(E)
                of Title 39, United States Code), the Senator shall register
                quarterly \84\ with the Secretary of the Senate such mass
                mailings. Such registration shall be made by filing with the
                Secretary a copy of the matter mailed and providing, on a
                form supplied by the Secretary, a description of the group
                or groups of persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed.
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                    \84\ Pursuant to Pub. L. 101-520, Nov. 5, 1990, 2 U.S.C.
                59g, See Senate Manual Sec. 351.

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         40.3b      (b) The Secretary of the Senate shall promptly make
                available for public inspection and copying a copy of the
                mail matter registered, and a description of the group or
                groups of persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed.
          40.4      4. Nothing in this rule shall apply to any mailing under
                the frank which is (a) in direct response to inquiries or
                requests from persons to whom the matter is mailed; (b)
                addressed to colleagues in Congress or to government
                officials (whether Federal, State, or local); or (c)
                consists entirely of news releases to the communications
                media.
          40.5      5. The Senate computer facilities shall not be used (a)
                to store, maintain, or otherwise process any lists or
                categories of lists of names and addresses identifying the
                individuals included in such lists as campaign workers or
                contributors, as members of a political party, or by any
                other partisan political designation, (b) to produce
                computer printouts except as authorized by user guides
                approved by the Committee on Rules and Administration, or
                (c) to produce mailing labels for mass mailings, or computer
                tapes and discs, for use other than in service facilities
                maintained and operated by the Senate or under contract to
                the Senate. The Committee on Rules and Administration shall
                prescribe such regulations not inconsistent with the
                purposes of this paragraph as it determines necessary to
                carry out such purposes.
         40.6a      6. (a) The radio and television studios provided by the
                Senate or by the House of Representatives may not be used by
                a Senator or an individual who is a candidate for nomination
                for election, or election, to the Senate less than sixty
                days immediately before the date of any primary or general
                election (whether regular, special, or runoff) in which that
                Senator is a candidate for public office or that individual
                is a candidate for Senator, unless the candidacy of the
                Senator in such election is uncontested.\85\
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                    \85\ As amended, S. Res. 224, 103-2, June 21, 1994.

         40.6b      (b) This paragraph shall not apply if the facilities are
                to be used at the request of, and at the expense of, a
                licensed broadcast organization or an organization exempt
                from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
                Revenue Code of 1954.

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