    [United States Senate Manual, 113th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 113-1]
    [Non-statutory Standing Orders and Regulations Affecting the Business of the Senate]
    [Pages 123-125]
    [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

                                                       Senate Manual Section

                                 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