    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 20-22]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            22                            RULE XXII

                                    PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS

          22.1      1. When a question is pending, no motion shall be
                received but--
                            To adjourn.
                            To adjourn to a day certain, or that when the
                        Senate adjourn it shall be to a day certain.
                            To take a recess.
                            To proceed to the consideration of executive
                        business.
                            To lay on the table.
                            To postpone indefinitely.
                            To postpone to a day certain.
                            To commit.
                            To amend.
                Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand
                arranged; and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a
                recess, to proceed to the consideration of executive
                business, to lay on the table, shall be decided without
                debate.

          22.2      2.\5\ Notwithstanding the provisions of rule II or rule
                IV or any other rule of the Senate, at any time a motion
                signed by sixteen Senators, to bring to a close the debate
                upon any measure, motion, other matter pending before the
                Senate, or the unfinished business, is presented to the
                Senate, the Presiding Officer, or clerk at the direction of
                the Presiding Officer, shall at once state the motion to the
                Senate,

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                and one hour after the Senate meets on the following
                calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the
                Senate and direct that the clerk call the roll, and upon the
                ascertainment that a quorum is present, the Presiding
                Officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a
                yea-and-nay vote the question:
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                    \5\ As amended by S. Res. 28, 99-2, Feb. 27, 1986.
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                    ``Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be
                brought to a close?'' And if that question shall be decided
                in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly
                chosen and sworn--except on a measure or motion to amend the
                Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote
                shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting--then
                said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the
                Senate, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished
                business to the exclusion of all other business until
                disposed of.
                    Thereafter no Senator shall be entitled to speak in all
                more than one hour on the measure, motion, or other matter
                pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, the
                amendments thereto and motions affecting the same, and it
                shall be the duty of the Presiding Officer to keep the time
                of each Senator who speaks. Except by unanimous consent, no
                amendment shall be proposed after the vote to bring the
                debate to a close, unless it had been submitted in writing
                to the Journal Clerk by 1 o'clock p.m. on the day following
                the filing of the cloture motion if an amendment in the
                first degree, and unless it had been so submitted at least
                one hour prior to the beginning of the cloture vote if an
                amendment in the second degree. No dilatory motion, or
                dilatory amendment, or amendment not germane shall be in
                order. Points of order, including questions of relevancy,
                and appeals from the decision of the Presiding Officer,
                shall be decided without debate.
                    After no more than thirty hours of consideration of the
                measure, motion, or other matter on which cloture has been
                invoked, the Senate shall proceed, without any further
                debate on any question, to vote on the final disposition
                thereof to the exclusion of all amendments not then actually
                pending before the Senate at that time and to the exclusion
                of all motions, except a motion to table, or to reconsider
                and one quorum call on demand to establish the presence of a
                quorum (and motions required to establish a quorum)
                immediately before the final vote begins. The thirty hours
                may be increased by the adoption of a motion,

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                decided without debate, by a three-fifths affirmative vote
                of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, and any such time
                thus agreed upon shall be equally divided between and
                controlled by the Majority and Minority Leaders or their
                designees. However, only one motion to extend time,
                specified above, may be made in any one calendar day.
                    If, for any reason, a measure or matter is reprinted
                after cloture has been invoked, amendments which were in
                order prior to the reprinting of the measure or matter will
                continue to be in order and may be conformed and reprinted
                at the request of the amendment's sponsor. The conforming
                changes must be limited to lineation and pagination.
                    No Senator shall call up more than two amendments until
                every other Senator shall have had the opportunity to do
                likewise.
                    Notwithstanding other provisions of this rule, a Senator
                may yield all or part of his one hour to the majority or
                minority floor managers of the measure, motion, or matter or
                to the Majority or Minority Leader, but each Senator
                specified shall not have more than two hours so yielded to
                him and may in turn yield such time to other Senators.
                    Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, any
                Senator who has not used or yielded at least ten minutes,
                is, if he seeks recognition, guaranteed up to ten minutes,
                inclusive, to speak only.
                    After cloture is invoked, the reading of any amendment,
                including House amendments, shall be dispensed with when the
                proposed amendment has been identified and has been
                available in printed form at the desk of the Members for not
                less than twenty-four hours.