[United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
[S. Doc. 112-1]
[Standing Rules of the Senate]
[Pages 19-20]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


        20                             RULE XX

                                 QUESTIONS OF ORDER

      20.1      1. A question of order may be raised at any stage of the 
            proceedings, except when the Senate is voting or 
            ascertaining the presence of a quorum, and, unless submitted 
            to the Senate, shall be decided by the Presiding Officer 
            without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate. When an 
            appeal is taken, any subsequent question of order which may 
            arise before the decision of such appeal shall be decided by 
            the Presiding Officer without debate; and every appeal 
            therefrom shall be decided at once, and without debate; and 
            any appeal may be laid on the table without prejudice to the 
            pending proposition, and thereupon shall be held as 
            affirming the decision of the Presiding Officer.

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      20.2      2. The Presiding Officer may submit any question of 
            order for the decision of the Senate.