    [United States Senate Manual, 116th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 116-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 57-58]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            30                            RULE XXX

                         EXECUTIVE SESSION--PROCEEDINGS ON TREATIES

         30.1a      1. (a) When a treaty shall be laid before the Senate for
                ratification, it shall be read a first time; and no motion
                in respect to it shall be in order, except to refer it to a
                committee, to print it in confidence for the use of the
                Senate, or to remove the injunction of secrecy.
         30.1b      (b) \40\ When a treaty is reported from a committee with
                or without amendment, it shall, unless the Senate
                unanimously otherwise directs, lie over one day for
                consideration; after which it may be read a second time,
                after which amendments may be proposed. At any stage of such
                proceedings the Senate may remove the injunction of secrecy
                from the treaty.
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                    \40\ As amended by S. Res. 28, 99-2, Feb. 27, 1986.
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         30.1c      (c) The decisions thus made shall be reduced to the form
                of a resolution of ratification, with or without amendments,
                as the case may be, which shall be proposed on a subsequent
                day, unless, by unanimous consent, the Senate determine
                otherwise, at which stage no amendment to the treaty shall
                be received unless by unanimous consent; but the resolution
                of ratification when pending shall be open to amendment in
                the form of reservations, declarations, statements, or
                understandings.
         30.1d      (d) On the final question to advise and consent to the
                ratification in the form agreed to, the concurrence of two-

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                thirds of the Senators present shall be necessary to
                determine it in the affirmative; but all other motions and
                questions upon a treaty shall be decided by a majority vote,
                except a motion to postpone indefinitely, which shall be
                decided by a vote of two-thirds.
          30.2      2. Treaties transmitted by the President to the Senate
                for ratification shall be resumed at the second or any
                subsequent session of the same Congress at the stage in
                which they were left at the final adjournment of the session
                at which they were transmitted; but all proceedings on
                treaties shall terminate with the Congress, and they shall
                be resumed at the commencement of the next Congress as if no
                proceedings had previously been had thereon.