    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 8-9]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            10                             RULE X

                                       SPECIAL ORDERS

          10.1      1. Any subject may, by a vote of two-thirds of the
                Senators present, be made a special order of business for
                consideration and when the time so fixed for its
                consideration

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                arrives the Presiding Officer shall lay it before the
                Senate, unless there be unfinished business in which case it
                takes its place on the Calendar of Special Orders in the
                order of time at which it was made special, to be considered
                in that order when there is no unfinished business.
          10.2      2. All motions to change such order, or to proceed to
                the consideration of other business, shall be decided
                without debate.