    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 18-19]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            19                            RULE XIX

                                           DEBATE

         19.1a      1. (a) When a Senator desires to speak, he shall rise
                and address the Presiding Officer, and shall not proceed
                until he is recognized, and the Presiding Officer shall
                recognize the Senator who shall first address him. No
                Senator shall interrupt another Senator in debate without
                his consent, and to obtain such consent he shall first
                address the Presiding Officer, and no Senator shall speak
                more than twice upon any one question in debate on the same
                legislative day without leave of the Senate, which shall be
                determined without debate.
         19.1b      (b) At the conclusion of the morning hour at the
                beginning of a new legislative day or after the unfinished
                business or any pending business has first been laid before
                the Senate on any calendar day, and until after the duration
                of three hours of actual session after such business is laid
                down except as determined to the contrary by unanimous
                consent or on motion without debate, all debate shall be
                germane and confined to the specific question then pending
                before the Senate.
          19.2      2. No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly,
                by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other
                Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a
                Senator.
          19.3      3. No Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any
                State of the Union.
          19.4      4. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, in the
                opinion of the Presiding Officer transgress the rules of the
                Senate the Presiding Officer shall, either on his own motion
                or at the request of any other Senator, call him to order;
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                when a Senator shall be called to order he shall take his
                seat, and may not proceed without leave of the Senate,
                which, if granted, shall be upon motion that he be allowed
                to proceed in order, which motion shall be determined
                without debate. Any Senator directed by the Presiding
                Officer to take his seat, and any Senator requesting the
                Presiding Officer to require a Senator to take his seat, may
                appeal from the ruling of the Chair, which appeal shall be
                open to debate.
          19.5      5. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in
                debate, upon the demand of the Senator or of any other
                Senator, the exceptionable words shall be taken down in
                writing, and read at the table for the information of the
                Senate.
          19.6      6. Whenever confusion arises in the Chamber or the
                galleries, or demonstrations of approval or disapproval are
                indulged in by the occupants of the galleries, it shall be
                the duty of the Chair to enforce order on his own initiative
                and without any point of order being made by a Senator.
          19.7      7. No Senator shall introduce to or bring to the
                attention of the Senate during its sessions any occupant in
                the galleries of the Senate. No motion to suspend this rule
                shall be in order, nor may the Presiding Officer entertain
                any request to suspend it by unanimous consent.
          19.8      8. Former Presidents of the United States shall be
                entitled to address the Senate upon appropriate notice to
                the Presiding Officer who shall thereupon make the necessary
                arrangements.