[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.