[United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
[S. Doc. 112-1]
[Standing Rules of the Senate]
[Pages 13-14]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


        15                             RULE XV

                               AMENDMENTS AND MOTIONS

     15.1a      1. (a) \3\ An amendment and any instruction accompanying 
            a motion to recommit shall be reduced to writing and read 
            and identical copies shall be provided by the Senator 
            offering the amendment or instruction to the desks of the 
            Majority Leader and the Minority Leader before being 
            debated.
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                \3\ Pursuant to Pub. L. 110-81, Sep. 14, 2007, paragraph 
            1 was amended.
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     15.1b      (b) A motion shall be reduced to writing, if desired by 
            the Presiding Officer or by any Senator, and shall be read 
            before being debated.
      15.2      2. Any motion, amendment, or resolution may be withdrawn 
            or modified by the mover at any time before a decision, 
            amendment, or ordering of the yeas and nays, except a motion 
            to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave.
      15.3      3. If the question in debate contains several 
            propositions, any Senator may have the same divided, except 
            a motion to strike out and insert, which shall not be 
            divided; but the rejection of a motion to strike out and 
            insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to strike 
            out and insert

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            a different proposition; nor shall it prevent a motion 
            simply to strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion to 
            strike out prevent a motion to strike out and insert. But 
            pending a motion to strike out and insert, the part to be 
            stricken out and the part to be inserted shall each be 
            regarded for the purpose of amendment as a question, and 
            motions to amend the part to be stricken out shall have 
            precedence.
      15.4      4. When an amendment proposed to any pending measure is 
            laid on the table, it shall not carry with it, or prejudice, 
            such measure.
      15.5      5. It shall not be in order to consider any proposed 
            committee amendment (other than a technical, clerical, or 
            conforming amendment) which contains any significant matter 
            not within the jurisdiction of the committee proposing such 
            amendment.