[United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
[S. Doc. 112-1]
[Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
[Pages 117-119]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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NONSTATUTORY STANDING ORDERS NOT EMBRACED IN THE RULES, AND
RESOLUTIONS AFFECTING THE BUSINESS OF THE SENATE
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CHAMBER AND FLOOR PROCEDURE
Provision for emergency authority relating to
Senate adjournments and recesses........................60
Authorizing regulations relating to the use of
official equipment......................................61
Votes shall be cast from assigned desk....................62
To permit an individual with a disability with
access to the Senate floor to bring necessary
supporting aids and services............................63
Flowers in the Senate Chamber.............................64
Reading of Washington's Farewell Address..................65
Designation of the ``Daniel Webster Desk''................66
Designation of the Jefferson Davis Desk...................67
Designation of the Henry Clay Desk........................68
Television and radio broadcast of Senate Chamber
proceedings.............................................69
Reading of conference reports.............................70
Public disclosure of notice of intent to object
to a measure or matter..................................71
Permitting the waiving of the reading of an
amendment...............................................72
To provide for expedited Senate consideration of
certain nominations subject to advice and
consent.................................................73
COMMITTEES
Committee on Appropriations authority.....................75
Consultants for the Committee on Appropriations
76
Select Committee on Ethics................................77
Select Committee on Ethics--additional
responsibility..........................................78
Select Committee on Ethics--Chairman and Vice-
chairman legislative assistants clerk-hire
allowance...............................................79
Authorizing the Select Committee on Ethics to
provide training assistance to its
professional staff......................................80
Select Committee on Intelligence..........................81
Homeland security and intelligence oversight..............82
Reorganization of Senate committee system.................83
Special Committee on Aging............................83.1
Committee on Indian Affairs...........................83.2
Committee assignments; chairmanships..................83.3
Scheduling of committee meetings......................83.4
Continuing review of the committee system.............83.5
Acceptance of gifts by the Committee on Rules
and Administration......................................84
Authorizing suit by Senate committees.....................85
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EMPLOYEES
Special deputies..........................................90
Office of Deputy President pro tempore....................91
Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus...........................92
Persons not full-time employees of the Senate.............93
Senate pages..............................................94
Closing the office of a Senator or Senate leader
who dies or resigns.....................................95
Pay of committee staff displaced by change of
Chairman or Ranking Minority Member.....................96
Pay of clerical and other assistants as affected
by termination of service of appointed
Senators................................................97
Leave without pay status for certain Senate
employees performing service in the uniformed
services................................................98
Loyalty checks on Senate employees........................99
Equal employment opportunities...........................100
Senate youth program.....................................101
Senior citizen internship program........................102
EXPENSES
Transportation costs and travel expenses
incurred by Members and employees of the
Senate when engaged in authorized foreign
travel.................................................105
Documentation required for reimbursements out of
Senators' official office expense accounts.............106
Restrictions on certain expenses payable or
reimbursable from a Senator's official office
expense account........................................107
Debt collection..........................................108
Tort claims procedures...................................109
Reimbursement of witness expenses........................110
Authorizing the Senate to participate in
government transit programs............................111
ETHICS
Relative to contributions for costs of civil,
criminal, or other legal investigations of
Members, officers, or employees of the Senate
115
Clarifying rules regarding acceptance of pro
bono legal services by Senators........................116
Standards of conduct for Members of the Senate
and officers and employees of the Senate...............117
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CEREMONIAL
Seal of the Senate.......................................120
Official Senate flag.....................................121
Seal of the President pro tempore........................122
Marble busts of Vice Presidents..........................123
Award of service pins or emblems.........................124
Designating the old Senate office building and
the new Senate office building as the
``Richard Brevard Russell Senate Office
Building'' and the ``Everett McKinley Dirksen
Senate Office Building'', respectively.................125
Designating the extension to the Dirksen Senate
office building as the ``Philip A. Hart Senate
Office Building''......................................126
Prohibition on the removal of art and historic
objects from the Senate wing of the Capitol
and Senate office buildings for personal use
127
Commission on Art and Antiquities of the United
States Senate..........................................128
Interparliamentary activities and reception of
certain foreign officials..............................129
Authorizing the display of the Senate Leadership
Portrait Collection in the Senate lobby................130
Establishing a procedure for affixing and
removing permanent artwork and semi-permanent
artwork in the Senate wing of the Capitol and
in the Senate office buildings.........................131
RECORDS
Public access to Senate records at the National
Archives...............................................135
Printing in the Congressional Record.....................136
Printing of the Executive Journal........................137
Printing of memorial tributes to deceased former
Members of the Senate..................................138
Office of Senate Security................................139