[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