    [United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 117-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
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    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                                STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE

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                [The 1979 general revision of the rules was accomplished by
                    the adoption of S. Res. 274 on Nov. 14, 1979, a
                    resolution submitted by Mr. Robert C. Byrd for himself
                    and Mr. Baker; the preparation of the proposed revision
                    was pursuant to the adoption of S. Res. 156 on May 10,
                    1976, a resolution by Mr. Robert C. Byrd; the general
                    revision of the rules set forth in S. Res. 274 was
                    somewhat altered in form by the adoption of S. Res. 389
                    on Mar. 25, 1980, to consolidate and renumber certain
                    standing rules of the Senate.

                [Changes to Senate rules since the last general revision in
                    1979 are indicated by footnotes in each succeeding
                    edition of the Senate Manual.

                [For the origin of various changes in Senate procedure
                    between 1884 and 1979, as set forth in rules changes,
                    adopted resolutions, and Legislative Reorganization
                    Acts, see the table on p. XVI of Riddick's Senate
                    Procedure, 1992.]

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             1                             RULE I

                            APPOINTMENT OF A SENATOR TO THE CHAIR

           1.1      1. In the absence of the Vice President, the Senate
                shall choose a President pro tempore, who shall hold the
                office and execute the duties thereof during the pleasure of
                the Senate and until another is elected or his term of
                office as a Senator expires.
           1.2      2. In the absence of the Vice President, and pending the
                election of a President pro tempore, the Acting President
                pro tempore or the Secretary of the Senate, or in his
                absence the Assistant Secretary, shall perform the duties of
                the Chair.
           1.3      3. The President pro tempore shall have the right to
                name in open Senate or, if absent, in writing, a Senator to
                perform the duties of the Chair, including the signing of
                duly enrolled bills and joint resolutions but such
                substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment, except
                by unanimous consent; and the Senator so named shall have
                the right to name in open session, or, if absent, in
                writing, a Senator to perform the duties of the Chair, but
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                extend beyond an adjournment, except by unanimous consent.

             2                             RULE II

                   PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS AND QUESTIONS OF PRIVILEGE

           2.1      1. The presentation of the credentials of Senators elect
                or of Senators designate and other questions of privilege
                shall always be in order, except during the reading and
                correction of the Journal, while a question of order or a
                motion to adjourn is pending, or while the Senate is voting
                or ascertaining the presence of a quorum; and all questions
                and motions arising or made upon the presentation of such
                credentials shall be proceeded with until disposed of.
           2.2      2. The Secretary shall keep a record of the certificates
                of election and certificates of appointment of Senators by
                entering in a well-bound book kept for that purpose the date
                of the election or appointment, the name of the person
                elected or appointed, the date of the certificate, the name
                of the governor and the secretary of state signing and
                counter-signing the same, and the state from which such
                Senator is elected or appointed.
           2.3      3. The Secretary of the Senate shall send copies of the
                following recommended forms to the governor and secretary of
                state of each state wherein an election is about to take
                place or an appointment is to be made so that they may use
                such forms if they see fit.

                THE RECOMMENDED FORMS FOR CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION AND
                    CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:\1\

                         ``CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION FOR SIX-YEAR TERM

                ``To the President of the Senate of the United States:
                    ``This is to certify that on the -- day of --, 20--, A--
                -- B---- was duly chosen by the qualified electors of the
                State of ---- a Senator from said State to represent said
                State in the Senate of the United States for the term of six
                years, beginning on the 3d day of January, 20--.
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                    ``Witness: His excellency our governor ----, and our
                seal hereto affixed at ---- this -- day of --, in the year
                of our Lord 20--.

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                    ``By the governor:
                                                  ``C---- D----,
                                                             ``Governor.
                    ``E---- F----,
                      ``Secretary of State.''

                        ``CERTIFICATE OF ELECTION FOR UNEXPIRED TERM

                ``To the President of the Senate of the United States:
                    ``This is to certify that on the -- day of ----, 20--,
                A---- B---- was duly chosen by the qualified electors of the
                State of ---- a Senator for the unexpired term ending at
                noon on the 3d day of January, 20--, to fill the vacancy in
                the representation from said State in the Senate of the
                United States caused by the -- of C---- D----.
                    ``Witness: His excellency our governor ----, and our
                seal hereto affixed at ---- this -- day of --, in the year
                of our Lord 20--.
                    ``By the governor:
                                                  ``E---- F----,
                                                             ``Governor.
                    ``G---- H----,
                      ``Secretary of State.''

                                ``CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

                ``To the President of the Senate of the United States:
                    ``This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested
                in me by the Constitution of the United States and the laws
                of the State of ----, I, A---- B----, the governor of said
                State, do hereby appoint C---- D---- a Senator from said
                State to represent said State in the Senate of the United
                States until the vacancy therein caused by the ---- of E----
                F----, is filled by election as provided by law.
                    ``Witness: His excellency our governor ----, and our
                seal hereto affixed at ---- this -- day of --, in the year
                of our Lord 20--.
                    ``By the governor:
                                                  ``G---- H----,
                                                             ``Governor.
                    ``I---- J----,
                      ``Secretary of State.''

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             3                            RULE III

                                            OATHS

                    The oaths or affirmations required by the Constitution
                and prescribed by law shall be taken and subscribed by each
                Senator, in open Senate, before entering upon his duties.

                OATH REQUIRED BY THE CONSTITUTION AND BY LAW TO BE TAKEN BY
                                          SENATORS

                    ``I, A---- B---- do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I
                will support and defend the Constitution of the United
                States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I
                will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take
                this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or
                purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully
                discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to
                enter: So help me God.'' (5 U.S.C. 3331.)

             4                             RULE IV

                               COMMENCEMENT OF DAILY SESSIONS

          4.1a      1. (a)\2\ The Presiding Officer having taken the chair,
                following the prayer by the Chaplain, and after the
                Presiding Officer, or a Senator designated by the Presiding
                Officer, leads the Senate from the dais in reciting the
                Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States, and a
                Quorum being present, the Journal of the preceding day shall
                be read unless by nondebatable motion the reading shall be
                waived, the question being, ``Shall the Journal stand
                approved to date?'', and any mistake made in the entries
                corrected. Except as provided in subparagraph (b) the
                reading of the Journal shall not be suspended unless by
                unanimous consent; and when any motion shall be made to
                amend or correct the same, it shall be deemed a privileged
                question, and proceeded with until disposed of.
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          4.1b      (b) Whenever the Senate is proceeding under paragraph 2
                of rule XXII, the reading of the Journal shall be dispensed
                with and shall be considered approved to date.
          4.1c      (c) The proceedings of the Senate shall be briefly and
                accurately stated on the Journal. Messages of the President
                in full; titles of bills and resolutions, and such parts as
                shall be affected by proposed amendments; every vote, and

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                a brief statement of the contents of each petition,
                memorial, or paper presented to the Senate, shall be
                entered.
          4.1d      (d) The legislative, the executive, the confidential
                legislative proceedings, and the proceedings when sitting as
                a Court of Impeachment, shall each be recorded in a separate
                book.
           4.2      2. During a session of the Senate when that body is in
                continuous session, the Presiding Officer shall temporarily
                suspend the business of the Senate at noon each day for the
                purpose of having the customary daily prayer by the
                Chaplain.

             5                             RULE V

                            SUSPENSION AND AMENDMENT OF THE RULES

           5.1      1. No motion to suspend, modify, or amend any rule, or
                any part thereof, shall be in order, except on one day's
                notice in writing, specifying precisely the rule or part
                proposed to be suspended, modified, or amended, and the
                purpose thereof. Any rule may be suspended without notice by
                the unanimous consent of the Senate, except as otherwise
                provided by the rules.
           5.2      2. The rules of the Senate shall continue from one
                Congress to the next Congress unless they are changed as
                provided in these rules.

             6                             RULE VI

                           QUORUM--ABSENT SENATORS MAY BE SENT FOR

           6.1      1. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the Senators
                duly chosen and sworn.
           6.2      2. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of
                the Senate without leave.
           6.3      3. If, at any time during the daily sessions of the
                Senate, a question shall be raised by any Senator as to the
                presence of a quorum, the Presiding Officer shall forthwith
                direct the Secretary to call the roll and shall announce the
                result, and these proceedings shall be without debate.
           6.4      4. Whenever upon such roll call it shall be ascertained
                that a quorum is not present, a majority of the Senators
                present may direct the Sergeant at Arms to request, and,
                when necessary, to compel the attendance of the absent
                Senators, which order shall be determined without debate;
                and pending its execution, and until a quorum shall be
                present, no debate nor motion, except to adjourn, or to re

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                cess pursuant to a previous order entered by unanimous
                consent, shall be in order.

             7                            RULE VII

                                      MORNING BUSINESS

           7.1      1. On each legislative day after the Journal is read,
                the Presiding Officer on demand of any Senator shall lay
                before the Senate messages from the President, reports and
                communications from the heads of Departments, and other
                communications addressed to the Senate, and such bills,
                joint resolutions, and other messages from the House of
                Representatives as may remain upon his table from any
                previous day's session undisposed of. The Presiding Officer
                on demand of any Senator shall then call for, in the
                following order:
                            The presentation of petitions and memorials.
                            Reports of committees.
                            The introduction of bills and joint resolutions.

                            The submission of other resolutions.
                All of which shall be received and disposed of in such
                order, unless unanimous consent shall be otherwise given,
                with newly offered resolutions being called for before
                resolutions coming over from a previous legislative day are
                laid before the Senate.

           7.2      2. Until the morning business shall have been concluded,
                and so announced from the Chair, or until one hour after the
                Senate convenes at the beginning of a new legislative day,
                no motion to proceed to the consideration of any bill,
                resolution, report of a committee, or other subject upon the
                Calendar shall be entertained by the Presiding Officer,
                unless by unanimous consent: Provided, however, That on
                Mondays which are the beginning of a legislative day the
                Calendar shall be called under rule VIII, and until two
                hours after the Senate convenes no motion shall be
                entertained to proceed to the consideration of any bill,
                resolution, or other subject upon the Calendar except the
                motion to continue the consideration of a bill, resolution,
                or other subject against objection as provided in rule VIII,
                or until the call of the Calendar has been completed.
           7.3      3. The Presiding Officer may at any time lay, and it
                shall be in order at any time for a Senator to move to lay,
                before the Senate, any bill or other matter sent to the
                Senate by the President or the House of Representatives for
                appropriate action allowed under the rules and any question

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                pending at that time shall be suspended for this purpose.
                Any motion so made shall be determined without debate.
           7.4      4. Petitions or memorials shall be referred, without
                debate, to the appropriate committee according to subject
                matter on the same basis as bills and resolutions, if signed
                by the petitioner or memorialist. A question of receiving or
                reference may be raised and determined without debate. But
                no petition or memorial or other paper signed by citizens or
                subjects of a foreign power shall be received, unless the
                same be transmitted to the Senate by the President.
           7.5      5. Only a brief statement of the contents of petitions
                and memorials shall be printed in the Congressional Record;
                and no other portion of any petition or memorial shall be
                printed in the Record unless specifically so ordered by vote
                of the Senate, as provided for in paragraph 4 of rule XI, in
                which case the order shall be deemed to apply to the body of
                the petition or memorial only; and names attached to the
                petition or memorial shall not be printed unless specially
                ordered, except that petitions and memorials from the
                legislatures or conventions, lawfully called, of the
                respective States, Territories, and insular possessions
                shall be printed in full in the Record whenever presented.
           7.6      6. Senators having petitions, memorials, bills, or
                resolutions to present after the morning hour may deliver
                them in the absence of objection to the Presiding Officer's
                desk, endorsing upon them their names, and with the approval
                of the Presiding Officer, they shall be entered on the
                Journal with the names of the Senators presenting them and
                in the absence of objection shall be considered as having
                been read twice and referred to the appropriate committees,
                and a transcript of such entries shall be furnished to the
                official reporter of debates for publication in the
                Congressional Record, under the direction of the Secretary
                of the Senate.

             8                            RULE VIII

                                      ORDER OF BUSINESS

           8.1      1. At the conclusion of the morning business at the
                beginning of a new legislative day, unless upon motion the
                Senate shall at any time otherwise order, the Senate shall
                proceed to the consideration of the Calendar of Bills and
                Resolutions, and shall continue such consideration until 2
                hours after the Senate convenes on such day (the end of the
                morning hour); and bills and resolutions that are not ob

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                jected to shall be taken up in their order, and each Senator
                shall be entitled to speak once and for five minutes only
                upon any question; and an objection may be interposed at any
                stage of the proceedings, but upon motion the Senate may
                continue such consideration; and this order shall commence
                immediately after the call for ``other resolutions'', or
                after disposition of resolutions coming ``over under the
                rule'', and shall take precedence of the unfinished business
                and other special orders. But if the Senate shall proceed on
                motion with the consideration of any matter notwithstanding
                an objection, the foregoing provisions touching debate shall
                not apply.
           8.2      2. All motions made during the first two hours of a new
                legislative day to proceed to the consideration of any
                matter shall be determined without debate, except motions to
                proceed to the consideration of any motion, resolution, or
                proposal to change any of the Standing Rules of the Senate
                shall be debatable. Motions made after the first two hours
                of a new legislative day to proceed to the consideration of
                bills and resolutions are debatable.

             9                             RULE IX

                                          MESSAGES

           9.1      1. Messages from the President of the United States or
                from the House of Representatives may be received at any
                stage of proceedings, except while the Senate is voting or
                ascertaining the presence of a quorum, or while the Journal
                is being read, or while a question of order or a motion to
                adjourn is pending.
           9.2      2. Messages shall be sent to the House of
                Representatives by the Secretary, who shall previously
                certify the determination of the Senate upon all bills,
                joint resolutions, and other resolutions which may be
                communicated to the House, or in which its concurrence may
                be requested; and the Secretary shall also certify and
                deliver to the President of the United States all
                resolutions and other communications which may be directed
                to him by the Senate.

            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
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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.

            11                             RULE XI

                   PAPERS--WITHDRAWAL, PRINTING, READING OF, AND REFERENCE

          11.1      1. No memorial or other paper presented to the Senate,
                except original treaties finally acted upon, shall be
                withdrawn from its files except by order of the Senate.
          11.2      2. The Secretary of the Senate shall obtain at the close
                of each Congress all the noncurrent records of the Senate
                and of each Senate committee and transfer them to the
                General Services Administration for preservation, subject to
                the orders of the Senate.
          11.3      3. When the reading of a paper is called for, and
                objected to, it shall be determined by a vote of the Senate,
                without debate.
          11.4      4. Every motion or resolution to print documents,
                reports, and other matter transmitted by the executive
                departments, or to print memorials, petitions, accompanying
                documents, or any other paper, except bills of the Senate or
                House of Representatives, resolutions submitted by a
                Senator, communications from the legislatures or
                conventions, lawfully called, of the respective States,
                shall, unless the Senate otherwise order, be referred to the
                Committee on Rules and Administration. When a motion is made
                to commit with instructions, it shall be in order to add
                thereto a motion to print.
          11.5      5. Motions or resolutions to print additional numbers
                shall also be referred to the Committee on Rules and
                Administration; and when the committee shall report
                favorably, the report shall be accompanied by an estimate of
                the probable cost thereof; and when the cost of printing
                such additional numbers shall exceed the sum established by
                law, the concurrence of the House of Representatives shall
                be necessary for an order to print the same.
          11.6      6. Every bill and joint resolution introduced or
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                ceived from the House of Representatives, and all reports of
                committees, shall be printed, unless, for the dispatch of
                the business of the Senate, such printing may be dispensed
                with.

            12                            RULE XII

                                      VOTING PROCEDURE

          12.1      1. When the yeas and nays are ordered, the names of
                Senators shall be called alphabetically; and each Senator
                shall, without debate, declare his assent or dissent to the
                question, unless excused by the Senate; and no Senator shall
                be permitted to vote after the decision shall have been
                announced by the Presiding Officer, but may for sufficient
                reasons, with unanimous consent, change or withdraw his
                vote. No motion to suspend this rule shall be in order, nor
                shall the Presiding Officer entertain any request to suspend
                it by unanimous consent.
          12.2      2. When a Senator declines to vote on call of his name,
                he shall be required to assign his reasons therefor, and
                having assigned them, the Presiding Officer shall submit the
                question to the Senate: ``Shall the Senator for the reasons
                assigned by him, be excused from voting?'' which shall be
                decided without debate; and these proceedings shall be had
                after the rollcall and before the result is announced; and
                any further proceedings in reference thereto shall be after
                such announcement.
          12.3      3. A Member, notwithstanding any other provisions of
                this rule, may decline to vote, in committee or on the
                floor, on any matter when he believes that his voting on
                such a matter would be a conflict of interest.
          12.4      4. No request by a Senator for unanimous consent for the
                taking of a final vote on a specified date upon the passage
                of a bill or joint resolution shall be submitted to the
                Senate for agreement thereto until after a quorum call
                ordered for the purpose by the Presiding Officer, it shall
                be disclosed that a quorum of the Senate is present; and
                when a unanimous consent is thus given the same shall
                operate as the order of the Senate, but any unanimous
                consent may be revoked by another unanimous consent granted
                in the manner prescribed above upon one day's notice.

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            13                            RULE XIII

                                       RECONSIDERATION

          13.1      1. When a question has been decided by the Senate, any
                Senator voting with the prevailing side or who has not voted
                may, on the same day or on either of the next two days of
                actual session thereafter, move a reconsideration; and if
                the Senate shall refuse to reconsider such a motion entered,
                or if such a motion is withdrawn by leave of the Senate, or
                if upon reconsideration the Senate shall affirm its first
                decision, no further motion to reconsider shall be in order
                unless by unanimous consent. Every motion to reconsider
                shall be decided by a majority vote, and may be laid on the
                table without affecting the question in reference to which
                the same is made, which shall be a final disposition of the
                motion.
          13.2      2. When a bill, resolution, report, amendment, order, or
                message, upon which a vote has been taken, shall have gone
                out of the possession of the Senate and been communicated to
                the House of Representatives, the motion to reconsider shall
                be accompanied by a motion to request the House to return
                the same; which last motion shall be acted upon immediately,
                and without debate, and if determined in the negative shall
                be a final disposition of the motion to reconsider.

            14                            RULE XIV

                BILLS, JOINT RESOLUTIONS, RESOLUTIONS, AND PREAMBLES THERETO

          14.1      1. Whenever a bill or joint resolution shall be offered,
                its introduction shall, if objected to, be postponed for one
                day.
          14.2      2. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three
                readings previous to its passage which readings on demand of
                any Senator shall be on three different legislative days,
                and the Presiding Officer shall give notice at each reading
                whether it be the first, second, or third: Provided, That
                each reading may be by title only, unless the Senate in any
                case shall otherwise order.
          14.3      3. No bill or joint resolution shall be committed or
                amended until it shall have been twice read, after which it
                may be referred to a committee; bills and joint resolutions
                introduced on leave, and bills and joint resolutions from
                the House of Representatives, shall be read once, and

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                may be read twice, if not objected to, on the same day for
                reference, but shall not be considered on that day nor
                debated, except for reference, unless by unanimous consent.
          14.4      4. Every bill and joint resolution reported from a
                committee, not having previously been read, shall be read
                once, and twice, if not objected to, on the same day, and
                placed on the Calendar in the order in which the same may be
                reported; and every bill and joint resolution introduced on
                leave, and every bill and joint resolution of the House of
                Representatives which shall have received a first and second
                reading without being referred to a committee, shall, if
                objection be made to further proceeding thereon, be placed
                on the Calendar.
          14.5      5. All bills, amendments, and joint resolutions shall be
                examined under the supervision of the Secretary of the
                Senate before they go out of the possession of the Senate,
                and all bills and joint resolutions which shall have passed
                both Houses shall be examined under the supervision of the
                Secretary of the Senate, to see that the same are correctly
                enrolled, and, when signed by the Speaker of the House and
                the President of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate
                shall forthwith present the same, when they shall have
                originated in the Senate, to the President of the United
                States and report the fact and date of such presentation to
                the Senate.
          14.6      6. All other resolutions shall lie over one day for
                consideration, if not referred, unless by unanimous consent
                the Senate shall otherwise direct. When objection is heard
                to the immediate consideration of a resolution or motion
                when it is submitted, it shall be placed on the Calendar
                under the heading of ``Resolutions and Motions over, under
                the Rule,'' to be laid before the Senate on the next
                legislative day when there is no further morning business
                but before the close of morning business and before the
                termination of the morning hour.
          14.7      7. When a bill or joint resolution shall have been
                ordered to be read a third time, it shall not be in order to
                propose amendments, unless by unanimous consent, but it
                shall be in order at any time before the passage of any bill
                or resolution to move its commitment; and when the bill or
                resolution shall again be reported from the committee it
                shall be placed on the Calendar.
          14.8      8. When a bill or resolution is accompanied by a
                preamble, the question shall first be put on the bill or
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                tion and then on the preamble, which may be withdrawn by a
                mover before an amendment of the same, or ordering of the
                yeas and nays; or it may be laid on the table without
                prejudice to the bill or resolution, and shall be a final
                disposition of such preamble.
          14.9      9. Whenever a private bill, except a bill for a pension,
                is under consideration, it shall be in order to move the
                adoption of a resolution to refer the bill to the Chief
                Commissioner of the Court of Claims for a report in
                conformity with section 2509 of Title 28, United States
                Code.
         14.10      10. No private bill or resolution (including so-called
                omnibus claims or pension bills), and no amendment to any
                bill or resolution, authorizing or directing (1) the payment
                of money for property damages, personal injuries, or death,
                for which a claim may be filed under chapter 171 of Title
                28, United States Code, or for a pension (other than to
                carry out a provision of law or treaty stipulation); (2) the
                construction of a bridge across a navigable stream; or (3)
                the correction of a military or naval record, shall be
                received or considered.

            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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         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
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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.

            16                            RULE XVI

                  APPROPRIATIONS AND AMENDMENTS TO GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS
                                            BILLS

          16.1      1. On a point of order made by any Senator, no
                amendments shall be received to any general appropriation
                bill the effect of which will be to increase an
                appropriation already contained in the bill, or to add a new
                item of appropriation, unless it be made to carry out the
                provisions of some existing law, or treaty stipulation, or
                act or resolution previously passed by the Senate during
                that session; or unless the same be moved by direction of
                the Committee on Appropriations or of a committee of the
                Senate having legislative jurisdiction of the subject
                matter, or proposed in pursuance of an estimate submitted in
                accordance with law.
          16.2      2. The Committee on Appropriations shall not report an
                appropriation bill containing amendments to such bill
                proposing new or general legislation or any restriction on
                the expenditure of the funds appropriated which proposes a
                limitation not authorized by law if such restriction is to
                take effect or cease to be effective upon the happening of a
                contingency, and if an appropriation bill is reported to the
                Senate containing amendments to such bill proposing new or
                general legislation or any such restriction, a point of
                order may be made against the bill, and if the point is
                sustained, the bill shall be recommitted to the Committee on
                Appropriations.

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          16.3      3. All amendments to general appropriation bills moved
                by direction of a committee having legislative jurisdiction
                of the subject matter proposing to increase an appropriation
                already contained in the bill, or to add new items of
                appropriation, shall, at least one day before they are
                considered, be referred to the Committee on Appropriations,
                and when actually proposed to the bill no amendment
                proposing to increase the amount stated in such amendment
                shall be received on a point of order made by any Senator.
          16.4      4. On a point of order made by any Senator, no amendment
                offered by any other Senator which proposes general
                legislation shall be received to any general appropriation
                bill, nor shall any amendment not germane or relevant to the
                subject matter contained in the bill be received; nor shall
                any amendment to any item or clause of such bill be received
                which does not directly relate thereto; nor shall any
                restriction on the expenditure of the funds appropriated
                which proposes a limitation not authorized by law be
                received if such restriction is to take effect or cease to
                be effective upon the happening of a contingency; and all
                questions of relevancy of amendments under this rule, when
                raised, shall be submitted to the Senate and be decided
                without debate; and any such amendment or restriction to a
                general appropriation bill may be laid on the table without
                prejudice to the bill.
          16.5      5. On a point of order made by any Senator, no
                amendment, the object of which is to provide for a private
                claim, shall be received to any general appropriation bill,
                unless it be to carry out the provisions of an existing law
                or a treaty stipulation, which shall be cited on the face of
                the amendment.
          16.6      6. When a point of order is made against any restriction
                on the expenditure of funds appropriated in a general
                appropriation bill on the ground that the restriction
                violates this rule, the rule shall be construed strictly
                and, in case of doubt, in favor of the point of order.
          16.7      7. Every report on general appropriation bills filed by
                the Committee on Appropriations shall identify with
                particularity each recommended amendment which proposes an
                item of appropriation which is not made to carry out the
                provisions of an existing law, a treaty stipulation, or an
                act or resolution previously passed by the Senate during
                that session.
          16.8      8. On a point of order made by any Senator, no general
                appropriation bill or amendment thereto shall be received

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                or considered if it contains a provision reappropriating
                unexpended balances of appropriations; except that this
                provision shall not apply to appropriations in continuation
                of appropriations for public works on which work has
                commenced.

            17                            RULE XVII

                 REFERENCE TO COMMITTEES; MOTIONS TO DISCHARGE; REPORTS OF
                             COMMITTEES; AND HEARINGS AVAILABLE

          17.1      1. Except as provided in paragraph 3, in any case in
                which a controversy arises as to the jurisdiction of any
                committee with respect to any proposed legislation, the
                question of jurisdiction shall be decided by the presiding
                officer, without debate, in favor of the committee which has
                jurisdiction over the subject matter which predominates in
                such proposed legislation; but such decision shall be
                subject to an appeal.
          17.2      2. A motion simply to refer shall not be open to
                amendment, except to add instructions.
         17.3a      3. (a) Upon motion by both the majority leader or his
                designee and the minority leader or his designee, proposed
                legislation may be referred to two or more committees
                jointly or sequentially. Notice of such motion and the
                proposed legislation to which it relates shall be printed in
                the Congressional Record. The motion shall be privileged,
                but it shall not be in order until the Congressional Record
                in which the notice is printed has been available to
                Senators for at least twenty-four hours. No amendment to any
                such motion shall be in order except amendments to any
                instructions contained therein. Debate on any such motion,
                and all amendments thereto and debatable motions and appeals
                in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than
                two hours, the time to be equally divided between, and
                controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader
                or their designees.
         17.3b      (b) Proposed legislation which is referred to two or
                more committees jointly may be reported only by such
                committees jointly and only one report may accompany any
                proposed legislation so jointly reported.
         17.3c      (c) A motion to refer any proposed legislation to two or
                more committees sequentially shall specify the order of
                referral.
         17.3d      (d) Any motion under this paragraph may specify the
                portion or portions of proposed legislation to be considered

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                by the committees, or any of them, to which such proposed
                legislation is referred, and such committees or committee
                shall be limited, in the consideration of such proposed
                legislation, to the portion or portions so specified.
         17.3e      (e) Any motion under this subparagraph may contain
                instructions with respect to the time allowed for
                consideration by the committees, or any of them, to which
                proposed legislation is referred and the discharge of such
                committees, or any of them, from further consideration of
                such proposed legislation.
         17.4a      4. (a) All reports of committees and motions to
                discharge a committee from the consideration of a subject,
                and all subjects from which a committee shall be discharged,
                shall lie over one day for consideration, unless by
                unanimous consent the Senate shall otherwise direct.
         17.4b      (b) Whenever any committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations) has reported any measure, by action taken in
                conformity with the requirements of paragraph 7 of rule
                XXVI, no point of order shall lie with respect to that
                measure on the ground that hearings upon that measure by the
                committee were not conducted in accordance with the
                provisions of paragraph 4 of rule XXVI.
          17.5      5.\4\ Any measure or matter reported by any standing
                committee shall not be considered in the Senate unless the
                report of that committee upon that measure or matter has
                been available to Members for at least two calendar days
                (excluding Sundays and legal holidays) prior to the
                consideration of that measure or matter. If hearings have
                been held on any such measure or matter so reported, the
                committee reporting the measure or matter shall make every
                reasonable effort to have such hearings printed and
                available for distribution to the Members of the Senate
                prior to the consideration of such measure or matter in the
                Senate. This paragraph--
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                            (1) may be waived by joint agreement of the
                        majority leader and the minority leader of the
                        Senate; and
                            (2) shall not apply to--
                                    (A) any measure for the declaration of
                                war, or the declaration of a national
                                emergency, by the Congress, and
                                    (B) any executive decision,
                                determination, or action which would become,
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                                tive unless disapproved or otherwise
                                invalidated by one or both Houses of
                                Congress.

            18                           RULE XVIII

                         BUSINESS CONTINUED FROM SESSION TO SESSION

                    At the second or any subsequent session of a Congress
                the legislative business of the Senate which remained
                undetermined at the close of the next preceding session of
                that Congress shall be resumed and proceeded with in the
                same manner as if no adjournment of the Senate had taken
                place.

            19                            RULE XIX

                                           DEBATE

         19.1a      1. (a) When a Senator desires to speak, he shall rise
                and address the Presiding Officer, and shall not proceed
                until he is recognized, and the Presiding Officer shall
                recognize the Senator who shall first address him. No
                Senator shall interrupt another Senator in debate without
                his consent, and to obtain such consent he shall first
                address the Presiding Officer, and no Senator shall speak
                more than twice upon any one question in debate on the same
                legislative day without leave of the Senate, which shall be
                determined without debate.
         19.1b      (b) At the conclusion of the morning hour at the
                beginning of a new legislative day or after the unfinished
                business or any pending business has first been laid before
                the Senate on any calendar day, and until after the duration
                of three hours of actual session after such business is laid
                down except as determined to the contrary by unanimous
                consent or on motion without debate, all debate shall be
                germane and confined to the specific question then pending
                before the Senate.
          19.2      2. No Senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly,
                by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other
                Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a
                Senator.
          19.3      3. No Senator in debate shall refer offensively to any
                State of the Union.
          19.4      4. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, in the
                opinion of the Presiding Officer transgress the rules of the
                Senate the Presiding Officer shall, either on his own motion
                or at the request of any other Senator, call him to order;
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                when a Senator shall be called to order he shall take his
                seat, and may not proceed without leave of the Senate,
                which, if granted, shall be upon motion that he be allowed
                to proceed in order, which motion shall be determined
                without debate. Any Senator directed by the Presiding
                Officer to take his seat, and any Senator requesting the
                Presiding Officer to require a Senator to take his seat, may
                appeal from the ruling of the Chair, which appeal shall be
                open to debate.
          19.5      5. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in
                debate, upon the demand of the Senator or of any other
                Senator, the exceptionable words shall be taken down in
                writing, and read at the table for the information of the
                Senate.
          19.6      6. Whenever confusion arises in the Chamber or the
                galleries, or demonstrations of approval or disapproval are
                indulged in by the occupants of the galleries, it shall be
                the duty of the Chair to enforce order on his own initiative
                and without any point of order being made by a Senator.
          19.7      7. No Senator shall introduce to or bring to the
                attention of the Senate during its sessions any occupant in
                the galleries of the Senate. No motion to suspend this rule
                shall be in order, nor may the Presiding Officer entertain
                any request to suspend it by unanimous consent.
          19.8      8. Former Presidents of the United States shall be
                entitled to address the Senate upon appropriate notice to
                the Presiding Officer who shall thereupon make the necessary
                arrangements.

            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.

            21                            RULE XXI

                                  SESSION WITH CLOSED DOORS

          21.1      1. On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of
                the Senate, on the discussion of any business which may, in
                the opinion of a Senator, require secrecy, the Presiding
                Officer shall direct the galleries to be cleared; and during
                the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed.
          21.2      2. When the Senate meets in closed session, any
                applicable provisions of rules XXIX and XXXI, including the
                confidentiality of information shall apply to any
                information and to the conduct of any debate transacted.

            22                            RULE XXII

                                    PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS

          22.1      1. When a question is pending, no motion shall be
                received but--
                            To adjourn.
                            To adjourn to a day certain, or that when the
                        Senate adjourn it shall be to a day certain.
                            To take a recess.
                            To proceed to the consideration of executive
                        business.
                            To lay on the table.
                            To postpone indefinitely.
                            To postpone to a day certain.
                            To commit.
                            To amend.
                Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand
                arranged; and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a
                recess, to proceed to the consideration of executive
                business, to lay on the table, shall be decided without
                debate.

          22.2      2.\5\ Notwithstanding the provisions of rule II or rule
                IV or any other rule of the Senate, at any time a motion
                signed by sixteen Senators, to bring to a close the debate
                upon any measure, motion, other matter pending before the
                Senate, or the unfinished business, is presented to the
                Senate, the Presiding Officer, or clerk at the direction of
                the Presiding Officer, shall at once state the motion to the
                Senate,

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                and one hour after the Senate meets on the following
                calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the
                Senate and direct that the clerk call the roll, and upon the
                ascertainment that a quorum is present, the Presiding
                Officer shall, without debate, submit to the Senate by a
                yea-and-nay vote the question:
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                    ``Is it the sense of the Senate that the debate shall be
                brought to a close?'' And if that question shall be decided
                in the affirmative by three-fifths of the Senators duly
                chosen and sworn--except on a measure or motion to amend the
                Senate rules, in which case the necessary affirmative vote
                shall be two-thirds of the Senators present and voting--then
                said measure, motion, or other matter pending before the
                Senate, or the unfinished business, shall be the unfinished
                business to the exclusion of all other business until
                disposed of.
                    Thereafter no Senator shall be entitled to speak in all
                more than one hour on the measure, motion, or other matter
                pending before the Senate, or the unfinished business, the
                amendments thereto and motions affecting the same, and it
                shall be the duty of the Presiding Officer to keep the time
                of each Senator who speaks. Except by unanimous consent, no
                amendment shall be proposed after the vote to bring the
                debate to a close, unless it had been submitted in writing
                to the Journal Clerk by 1 o'clock p.m. on the day following
                the filing of the cloture motion if an amendment in the
                first degree, and unless it had been so submitted at least
                one hour prior to the beginning of the cloture vote if an
                amendment in the second degree. No dilatory motion, or
                dilatory amendment, or amendment not germane shall be in
                order. Points of order, including questions of relevancy,
                and appeals from the decision of the Presiding Officer,
                shall be decided without debate.
                    After no more than thirty hours of consideration of the
                measure, motion, or other matter on which cloture has been
                invoked, the Senate shall proceed, without any further
                debate on any question, to vote on the final disposition
                thereof to the exclusion of all amendments not then actually
                pending before the Senate at that time and to the exclusion
                of all motions, except a motion to table, or to reconsider
                and one quorum call on demand to establish the presence of a
                quorum (and motions required to establish a quorum)
                immediately before the final vote begins. The thirty hours
                may be increased by the adoption of a motion,

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                decided without debate, by a three-fifths affirmative vote
                of the Senators duly chosen and sworn, and any such time
                thus agreed upon shall be equally divided between and
                controlled by the Majority and Minority Leaders or their
                designees. However, only one motion to extend time,
                specified above, may be made in any one calendar day.
                    If, for any reason, a measure or matter is reprinted
                after cloture has been invoked, amendments which were in
                order prior to the reprinting of the measure or matter will
                continue to be in order and may be conformed and reprinted
                at the request of the amendment's sponsor. The conforming
                changes must be limited to lineation and pagination.
                    No Senator shall call up more than two amendments until
                every other Senator shall have had the opportunity to do
                likewise.
                    Notwithstanding other provisions of this rule, a Senator
                may yield all or part of his one hour to the majority or
                minority floor managers of the measure, motion, or matter or
                to the Majority or Minority Leader, but each Senator
                specified shall not have more than two hours so yielded to
                him and may in turn yield such time to other Senators.
                    Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, any
                Senator who has not used or yielded at least ten minutes,
                is, if he seeks recognition, guaranteed up to ten minutes,
                inclusive, to speak only.
                    After cloture is invoked, the reading of any amendment,
                including House amendments, shall be dispensed with when the
                proposed amendment has been identified and has been
                available in printed form at the desk of the Members for not
                less than twenty-four hours.
          22.3      3.\6\If a cloture motion on a motion to proceed to a
                measure or matter is presented in accordance with this rule
                and is signed by 16 Senators, including the Majority Leader,
                the Minority Leader, 7 additional Senators not affiliated
                with the majority, and 7 additional Senators not affiliated
                with the minority, one hour after the Senate meets on the
                following calendar day, the Presiding Officer, or the clerk
                at the direction of the Presiding Officer, shall lay the
                motion before the Senate. If cloture is then invoked on the
                motion to proceed, the question shall be on the motion to
                proceed, without further debate.
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            23                           RULE XXIII

                                   PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR

          23.1      1.\7\Other than the Vice President and Senators, no
                person shall be admitted to the floor of the Senate while in
                session, except as follows:
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                            The President of the United States and his
                        private secretary.
                            The President elect and Vice President elect of
                        the United States.
                            Ex-Presidents and ex-Vice Presidents of the
                        United States.
                            Judges of the Supreme Court.
                            Ex-Senators and Senators elect, except as
                        provided in paragraph 2.\8\
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                            The officers and employees of the Senate in the
                        discharge of their official duties.
                            Ex-Secretaries and ex-Sergeants at Arms of the
                        Senate, except as provided in paragraph 2.\9\
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                            Members of the House of Representatives and
                        Members elect.
                            Ex-Speakers of the House of Representatives,
                        except as provided in paragraph 2.\10\
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                            The Sergeant at Arms of the House and his chief
                        deputy and the Clerk of the House and his deputy.
                            Heads of the Executive Departments.
                            Ambassadors and Ministers of the United States.
                            Governors of States and Territories.
                            Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
                            The General Commanding the Army.
                            The Senior Admiral of the Navy on the active
                        list.
                            Members of National Legislatures of foreign
                        countries and Members of the European Parliament.
                            Judges of the Court of Claims.
                            The Mayor of the District of Columbia.
                            The Librarian of Congress and the Assistant
                        Librarian in charge of the Law Library.
                            The Architect of the Capitol.
                            The Chaplain of the House of Representatives.
                            The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
                            The Parliamentarian Emeritus of the Senate.

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                            Members of the staffs of committees of the
                        Senate and joint committees of the Congress when in
                        the discharge of their official duties and employees
                        in the office of a Senator when in the discharge of
                        their official duties (but in each case subject to
                        such rules or regulations as may be prescribed by
                        the Committee on Rules and Administration). Senate
                        committee staff members and employees in the office
                        of a Senator must be on the payroll of the Senate
                        and members of joint committee staffs must be on the
                        payroll of the Senate or the House of
                        Representatives.

         23.2a      2. (a)\11\ The floor privilege provided in paragraph 1
                shall not apply, when the Senate is in session, to an
                individual covered by this paragraph who is--
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                            (1) a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign
                        principal; or
                            (2) in the employ of or represents any party or
                        organization for the purpose of influencing,
                        directly or indirectly, the passage, defeat, or
                        amendment of any Federal legislative proposal.

         23.2b      (b) The Committee on Rules and Administration may
                promulgate regulations to allow individuals covered by this
                paragraph floor privileges for ceremonial functions and
                events designated by the Majority Leader and the Minority
                Leader.
          23.3      3. A former Member of the Senate may not exercise
                privileges to use Senate athletic facilities or Member-only
                parking spaces if such Member is--
         23.3a

                            (a) a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign
                        principal; or

         23.3b

                            (b) in the employ of or represents any party or
                        organization for the purpose of influencing,
                        directly or indirectly, the passage, defeat, or
                        amendment of any Federal legislative proposal.

            24                            RULE XXIV

                                  APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES

          24.1      1. In the appointment of the standing committees, or to
                fill vacancies thereon, the Senate, unless otherwise
                ordered, shall by resolution appoint the chairman of each
                such committee and the other members thereof. On de

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                mand of any Senator, a separate vote shall be had on the
                appointment of the chairman of any such committee and on the
                appointment of the other members thereof. Each such
                resolution shall be subject to amendment and to division of
                the question.
          24.2      2. On demand of one-fifth of the Senators present, a
                quorum being present, any vote taken pursuant to paragraph 1
                shall be by ballot.
          24.3      3. Except as otherwise provided or unless otherwise
                ordered, all other committees, and the chairmen thereof,
                shall be appointed in the same manner as standing
                committees.
          24.4      4. When a chairman of a committee shall resign or cease
                to serve on a committee, action by the Senate to fill the
                vacancy in such committee, unless specially otherwise
                ordered, shall be only to fill up the number of members of
                the committee, and the election of a new chairman.

            25                            RULE XXV

                                     STANDING COMMITTEES

          25.1      1. The following standing committees shall be appointed
                at the commencement of each Congress, and shall continue and
                have the power to act until their successors are appointed,
                with leave to report by bill or otherwise on matters within
                their respective jurisdictions:
         25.1a      (a)(1) Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
                Forestry, to which committee shall be referred all proposed
                legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other
                matters relating primarily to the following subjects:
                            1. Agricultural economics and research.
                            2. Agricultural extension services and
                        experiment stations.
                            3. Agricultural production, marketing, and
                        stabilization of prices.
                            4. Agriculture and agricultural commodities.
                            5. Animal industry and diseases.
                            6. Crop insurance and soil conservation.
                            7. Farm credit and farm security.
                            8. Food from fresh waters.
                            9. Food stamp programs.
                            10. Forestry, and forest reserves and wilderness
                        areas other than those created from the public
                        domain.
                            11. Home economics.

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                            12. Human nutrition.
                            13. Inspection of livestock, meat, and
                        agricultural products.
                            14. Pests and pesticides.
                            15. Plant industry, soils, and agricultural
                        engineering.
                            16. Rural development, rural electrification,
                        and watersheds.
                            17. School nutrition programs.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to food, nutrition,
                and hunger, both in the United States and in foreign
                countries, and rural affairs, and report thereon from time
                to time.
         25.1b      (b) Committee on Appropriations, to which committee
                shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages,
                petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the
                following subjects:
                            1. Appropriation of the revenue for the support
                        of the Government, except as provided in
                        subparagraph (e).
                            2. Rescission of appropriations contained in
                        appropriation Acts (referred to in section 105 of
                        Title 1, United States Code).
                            3. The amount of new spending authority
                        described in section 401(c)(2) (A) and (B) of the
                        Congressional Budget Act of 1974 which is to be
                        effective for a fiscal year.
                            4. New spending authority described in section
                        401(c)(2)(C) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
                        provided in bills and resolutions referred to the
                        committee under section 401(b)(2) of that Act (but
                        subject to the provisions of section 401(b)(3) of
                        that Act).

         25.1c      (c)(1) Committee on Armed Services, to which committee
                shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages,
                petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the
                following subjects:
                            1. Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to
                        or primarily associated with the development of
                        weapons systems or military operations.
                            2. Common defense.
                            3. Department of Defense, the Department of the
                        Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department
                        of the Air Force, generally.

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                            4. Maintenance and operation of the Panama
                        Canal, including administration, sanitation, and
                        government of the Canal Zone.
                            5. Military research and development.
                            6. National security aspects of nuclear energy.
                            7. Naval petroleum reserves, except those in
                        Alaska.
                            8. Pay, promotion, retirement, and other
                        benefits and privileges of members of the Armed
                        Forces, including overseas education of civilian and
                        military dependents.
                            9. Selective service system.
                            10. Strategic and critical materials necessary
                        for the common defense.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to the common defense
                policy of the United States, and report thereon from time to
                time.
         25.1d      (d)(1) Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,
                to which committee shall be referred all proposed
                legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other
                matters relating to the following subjects:
                            1. Banks, banking, and financial institutions.
                            2. Control of prices of commodities, rents, and
                        services.
                            3. Deposit insurance.
                            4. Economic stabilization and defense
                        production.
                            5. Export and foreign trade promotion.
                            6. Export controls.
                            7. Federal monetary policy, including Federal
                        Reserve System.
                            8. Financial aid to commerce and industry.
                            9. Issuance and redemption of notes.
                            10. Money and credit, including currency and
                        coinage.
                            11. Nursing home construction.
                            12. Public and private housing (including
                        veterans' housing).
                            13. Renegotiation of Government contracts.
                            14. Urban development and urban mass transit.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to international
                economic policy as it affects United States monetary
                affairs, credit, and financial institutions; economic
                growth, urban affairs, and credit, and report thereon from
                time to time.

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         25.1e      (e)(1)\12\ Committee on the Budget, to which committee
                shall be referred all concurrent resolutions on the budget
                (as defined in section 3(a)(4) of the Congressional Budget
                Act of 1974) and all other matters required to be referred
                to that committee under Titles III and IV of that Act, and
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                thereto.
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                modified by S. Res. 445, 108-2, Oct. 9, 2004; however, the
                Standing Rules of the Senate were not amended.
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                    (2) Such committee shall have the duty--
                            (A) to report the matters required to be
                        reported by it under titles III and IV of the
                        Congressional Budget Act of 1974;
                            (B) to make continuing studies of the effect on
                        budget outlays of relevant existing and proposed
                        legislation and to report the results of such
                        studies to the Senate on a recurring basis;
                            (C) to request and evaluate continuing studies
                        of tax expenditures, to devise methods of
                        coordinating tax expenditures, policies, and
                        programs with direct budget outlays, and to report
                        the results of such studies to the Senate on a
                        recurring basis; and
                            (D) to review, on a continuing basis, the
                        conduct by the Congressional Budget Office of its
                        functions and duties.

         25.1f      (f)(1) Committee on Commerce, Science, and
                Transportation, to which committee shall be referred all
                proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and
                other matters relating to the following subjects:
                            1. Coast Guard.
                            2. Coastal zone management.
                            3. Communications.
                            4. Highway safety.
                            5. Inland waterways, except construction.
                            6. Interstate commerce.
                            7. Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and
                        transportation, including navigational aspects of
                        deepwater ports.
                            8. Marine fisheries.
                            9. Merchant marine and navigation.
                            10. Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences.
                            11. Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities.
                            12. Panama Canal and interoceanic canals
                        generally, except as provided in subparagraph (c).

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                            13. Regulation of consumer products and
                        services, including testing related to toxic
                        substances, other than pesticides, and except for
                        credit, financial services, and housing.
                            14. Regulation of interstate common carriers,
                        including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels,
                        pipelines, and civil aviation.
                            15. Science, engineering, and technology
                        research and development and policy.
                            16. Sports.
                            17. Standards and measurement.
                            18. Transportation.
                            19. Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer
                        Continental Shelf lands.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, all matters relating to science and
                technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications,
                and consumer affairs, and report thereon from time to time.
         25.1g      (g)(1) Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to
                which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation,
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                to the following subjects:
                            1. Coal production, distribution, and
                        utilization.
                            2. Energy policy.
                            3. Energy regulation and conservation.
                            4. Energy related aspects of deepwater ports.
                            5. Energy research and development.
                            6. Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer
                        Continental Shelf lands.
                            7. Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and
                        reclamation.
                            8. Mining education and research.
                            9. Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and
                        mineral conservation.
                            10. National parks, recreation areas, wilderness
                        areas, wild and scenic rivers, historical sites,
                        military parks and battlefields, and on the public
                        domain, preservation of prehistoric ruins and
                        objects of interest.
                            11. Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska.
                            12. Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy.
                            13. Oil and gas production and distribution.
                            14. Public lands and forests, including farming
                        and grazing thereon, and mineral extraction
                        therefrom.
                            15. Solar energy systems.

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                            16. Territorial possessions of the United
                        States, including trusteeships.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to energy and
                resources development, and report thereon from time to time.
         25.1h      (h)(1) Committee on Environment and Public Works, to
                which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation,
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                to the following subjects:
                            1. Air pollution.
                            2. Construction and maintenance of highways.
                            3. Environmental aspects of Outer Continental
                        Shelf lands.
                            4. Environmental effects of toxic substances,
                        other than pesticides.
                            5. Environmental policy.
                            6. Environmental research and development.
                            7. Fisheries and wildlife.
                            8. Flood control and improvements of rivers and
                        harbors, including environmental aspects of
                        deepwater ports.
                            9. Noise pollution.
                            10. Nonmilitary environmental regulation and
                        control of nuclear energy.
                            11. Ocean dumping.
                            12. Public buildings and improved grounds of the
                        United States generally, including Federal buildings
                        in the District of Columbia.
                            13. Public works, bridges, and dams.
                            14. Regional economic development.
                            15. Solid waste disposal and recycling.
                            16. Water pollution.
                            17. Water resources.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to environmental
                protection and resource utilization and conservation, and
                report thereon from time to time.
         25.1i      (i) Committee on Finance, to which committee shall be
                referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions,
                memorials, and other matters relating to the following
                subjects:
                            1. Bonded debt of the United States, except as
                        provided in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
                            2. Customs, collection districts, and ports of
                        entry and delivery.

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                            3. Deposit of public moneys.
                            4. General revenue sharing.
                            5. Health programs under the Social Security Act
                        and health programs financed by a specific tax or
                        trust fund.
                            6. National social security.
                            7. Reciprocal trade agreements.
                            8. Revenue measures generally, except as
                        provided in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
                            9. Revenue measures relating to the insular
                        possessions.
                            10. Tariffs and import quotas, and matters
                        related thereto.
                            11. Transportation of dutiable goods.
         25.1j      (j)(1) Committee on Foreign Relations, to which
                committee shall be referred all proposed legislation,
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                to the following subjects:
                            1. Acquisition of land and buildings for
                        embassies and legations in foreign countries.
                            2. Boundaries of the United States.
                            3. Diplomatic service.
                            4. Foreign economic, military, technical, and
                        humanitarian assistance.
                            5. Foreign loans.
                            6. International activities of the American
                        National Red Cross and the International Committee
                        of the Red Cross.
                            7. International aspects of nuclear energy,
                        including nuclear transfer policy.
                            8. International conferences and congresses.
                            9. International law as it relates to foreign
                        policy.
                            10. International Monetary Fund and other
                        international organizations established primarily
                        for international monetary purposes (except that, at
                        the request of the Committee on Banking, Housing,
                        and Urban Affairs, any proposed legislation relating
                        to such subjects reported by the Committee on
                        Foreign Relations shall be referred to the Committee
                        on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs).
                            11. Intervention abroad and declarations of war.
                            12. Measures to foster commercial intercourse
                        with foreign nations and to safeguard American
                        business interests abroad.
                            13. National security and international aspects
                        of trusteeships of the United States.

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                            14. Oceans and international environmental and
                        scientific affairs as they relate to foreign policy.
                            15. Protection of United States citizens abroad
                        and expatriation.
                            16. Relations of the United States with foreign
                        nations generally.
                            17. Treaties and executive agreements, except
                        reciprocal trade agreements.
                            18. United Nations and its affiliated
                        organizations.
                            19. World Bank group, the regional development
                        banks, and other international organizations
                        established primarily for development assistance
                        purposes.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to the national
                security policy, foreign policy, and international economic
                policy as it relates to foreign policy of the United States,
                and matters relating to food, hunger, and nutrition in
                foreign countries, and report thereon from time to time.
         25.1k      (k)(1)\13\ Committee on Governmental Affairs, to which
                committee shall be referred all proposed legislation,
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                to the following subjects:
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                    \13\Pursuant to S. Res. 445, 108-2, Oct. 9, 2004, ``the
                Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
                shall be treated as the Committee on Governmental Affairs
                listed under paragraph 2 of rule XXV of the Standing Rules
                of the Senate for purposes of the Standing Rules of the
                Senate.'' The resolution also modified the jurisdiction of
                the Committee. However, the Standing Rules of the Senate
                were not amended.
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                            1. Archives of the United States.
                            2. Budget and accounting measures, other than
                        appropriations, except as provided in the
                        Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
                            3. Census and collection of statistics,
                        including economic and social statistics.
                            4. Congressional organization, except for any
                        part of the matter that amends the rules or orders
                        of the Senate.
                            5. Federal Civil Service.
                            6. Government information.
                            7. Intergovernmental relations.
                            8. Municipal affairs of the District of
                        Columbia, except appropriations therefor.
                            9. Organization and management of United States
                        nuclear export policy.
                            10. Organization and reorganization of the
                        executive branch of the Government.

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                            11. Postal Service.
                            12. Status of officers and employees of the
                        United States, including their classification,
                        compensation, and benefits.
                    (2) Such committee shall have the duty of--
                            (A) receiving and examining reports of the
                        Comptroller General of the United States and of
                        submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it
                        deems necessary or desirable in connection with the
                        subject matter of such reports;
                            (B) studying the efficiency, economy, and
                        effectiveness of all agencies and departments of the
                        Government;
                            (C) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to
                        reorganize the legislative and executive branches of
                        the Government; and
                            (D) studying the intergovernmental relationships
                        between the United States and the States and
                        municipalities, and between the United States and
                        international organizations of which the United
                        States is a member.
         25.1l      (l)(1)\14\ Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and
                Pensions, to which committee shall be referred all proposed
                legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other
                matters relating to the following subjects:
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                redesignated as subparagraph (l) by S. Res. 299, 106-2, Apr.
                27, 2000.
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                            1. Measures relating to education, labor,
                        health, and public welfare.
                            2. Aging.
                            3. Agricultural colleges.
                            4. Arts and humanities.
                            5. Biomedical research and development.
                            6. Child labor.
                            7. Convict labor and the entry of goods made by
                        convicts into interstate commerce.
                            8. Domestic activities of the American National
                        Red Cross.
                            9. Equal employment opportunity.
                            10. Gallaudet College, Howard University, and
                        Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
                            11. Individuals with disabilities.\15\
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                            12. Labor standards and labor statistics.
                            13. Mediation and arbitration of labor disputes.

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                            14. Occupational safety and health, including
                        the welfare of miners.
                            15. Private pension plans.
                            16. Public health.
                            17. Railway labor and retirement.
                            18. Regulation of foreign laborers.
                            19. Student loans.
                            20. Wages and hours of labor.
                    (2) Such committee shall also study and review, on a
                comprehensive basis, matters relating to health, education
                and training, and public welfare, and report thereon from
                time to time.
         25.1m      (m)\16\ Committee on the Judiciary, to which committee
                shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages,
                petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the
                following subjects:
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                106-2, Apr. 27, 2000.
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                            1. Apportionment of Representatives.
                            2. Bankruptcy, mutiny, espionage, and
                        counterfeiting.
                            3. Civil liberties.
                            4. Constitutional amendments.
                            5. Federal courts and judges.
                            6. Government information.
                            7. Holidays and celebrations.
                            8. Immigration and naturalization.
                            9. Interstate compacts generally.
                            10. Judicial proceedings, civil and criminal,
                        generally.
                            11. Local courts in the territories and
                        possessions.
                            12. Measures relating to claims against the
                        United States.
                            13. National penitentiaries.
                            14. Patent Office.
                            15. Patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
                            16. Protection of trade and commerce against
                        unlawful restraints and monopolies.
                            17. Revision and codification of the statutes of
                        the United States.
                            18. State and territorial boundary lines.

         25.1n      (n)(1) Committee on Rules and Administration, to which
                committee shall be referred all proposed legislation,
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                to the following subjects:

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                            1. Administration of the Senate Office Buildings
                        and the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the
                        assignment of office space.
                            2. Congressional organization relative to rules
                        and procedures, and Senate rules and regulations,
                        including floor and gallery rules.
                            3. Corrupt practices.
                            4. Credentials and qualifications of Members of
                        the Senate, contested elections, and acceptance of
                        incompatible offices.
                            5. Federal elections generally, including the
                        election of the President, Vice President, and
                        Members of the Congress.
                            6. Government Printing Office, and the printing
                        and correction of the Congressional Record, as well
                        as those matters provided for under rule XI.
                            7. Meetings of the Congress and attendance of
                        Members.
                            8. Payment of money out of the contingent fund
                        of the Senate or creating a charge upon the same
                        (except that any resolution relating to substantive
                        matter within the jurisdiction of any other standing
                        committee of the Senate shall be first referred to
                        such committee).
                            9. Presidential succession.
                            10. Purchase of books and manuscripts and
                        erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.
                            11. Senate Library and statuary, art, and
                        pictures in the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings.
                            12. Services to the Senate, including the Senate
                        restaurant.
                            13. United States Capitol and congressional
                        office buildings, the Library of Congress, the
                        Smithsonian Institution (and the incorporation of
                        similar institutions), and the Botanic Gardens.
                    (2) Such committee shall also--
                            (A) make a continuing study of the organization
                        and operation of the Congress of the United States
                        and shall recommend improvements in such
                        organization and operation with a view toward
                        strengthening the Congress, simplifying its
                        operations, improving its relationships with other
                        branches of the United States Government, and
                        enabling it better to meet its responsibilities
                        under the Constitution of the United States;

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                            (B) identify any court proceeding or action
                        which, in the opinion of the Committee, is of vital
                        interest to the Congress as a constitutionally
                        established institution of the Federal Government
                        and call such proceeding or action to the attention
                        of the Senate; and
                            (C)\17\ develop, implement, and update as
                        necessary a strategic planning process and a
                        strategic plan for the functional and technical
                        infrastructure support of the Senate and provide
                        oversight over plans developed by Senate officers
                        and others in accordance with the strategic planning
                        process.
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                    \17\As added by S. Res. 151, 105-1, Nov. 9, 1997.

         25.1o      (o)(1)\18\ Committee on Small Business and
                Entrepreneurship, to which committee shall be referred all
                proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and
                other matters relating to the Small Business Administration.
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                    \18\As added by S. Res. 101, 97-1, Mar. 25, 1981; name
                changed by S. Res. 123, 107-1, June 29, 2001.
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                    (2) Any proposed legislation reported by such committee
                which relates to matters other than the functions of the
                Small Business Administration shall, at the request of the
                chairman of any standing committee having jurisdiction over
                the subject matter extraneous to the functions of the Small
                Business Administration, be considered and reported by such
                standing committee prior to its consideration by the Senate;
                and likewise measures reported by other committees directly
                relating to the Small Business Administration shall, at the
                request of the chairman of the Committee on Small Business,
                be referred to the Committee on Small Business and
                Entrepreneurship for its consideration of any portions of
                the measure dealing with the Small Business Administration,
                and be reported by this committee prior to its consideration
                by the Senate.
                    (3) Such committee shall also study and survey by means
                of research and investigation all problems of American small
                business enterprises, and report thereon from time to time.
         25.1p      (p)\19\ Committee on Veterans' Affairs, to which
                committee shall be referred all proposed legislation,
                messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating
                to the following subjects:
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                    \19\Redesignated as subparagraph (p) by S. Res. 101, 97-
                1, Mar. 25, 1981.
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                            1. Compensation of veterans.

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                            2. Life insurance issued by the Government on
                        account of service in the Armed Forces.
                            3. National cemeteries.
                            4. Pensions of all wars of the United States,
                        general and special.
                            5. Readjustment of servicemen to civil life.
                            6. Soldiers' and sailors' civil relief.
                            7. Veterans' hospitals, medical care and
                        treatment of veterans.
                            8. Veterans' measures generally.
                            9. Vocational rehabilitation and education of
                        veterans.
          25.2      2.\20\ Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4 of
                this rule, each of the following standing committees shall
                consist of the number of Senators set forth in the following
                table on the line on which the name of that committee
                appears:
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                    \20\As amended by S. Res. 13, 97-1, Jan. 5, 1981; S.
                Res. 365, 97-2, Apr. 20, 1982; S. Res. 380, 97-2, Apr. 27,
                1982; S. Res. 6, 98-1, Jan. 3, 1983; S. Res. 20, 98-1, Jan.
                27, 1983; S. Res. 53, 98-1, Feb. 3, 1983; S. Res. 338, 98-2,
                Feb. 9, 1984; S. Res. 74, 99-1, Feb. 21, 1985; S. Res. 14,
                100-1, Jan. 6, 1987; S. Res. 211, 100-1, May 12, 1987; S.
                Res. 43, 101-1, Feb. 2, 1989; S. Res. 43, 102-1, Feb. 5,
                1991; S. Res. 135, 102-1, June 4, 1991; S. Res. 4, 103-1,
                Jan. 7, 1993; S. Res. 130, 103-1, July 1, 1993; S. Res. 132,
                103-1, July 15, 1993; S. Res. 14, 104-1, Jan. 5, 1995; S.
                Res. 92, 104-1, Mar. 24, 1995; S. Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9,
                1997; HELP/Judiciary reversed by S. Res. 299, 106-2, Apr.
                27, 2000; S. Res. 354, 106-2, Sept. 12, 2000.
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                        Committee:
                                                                      Members

                        Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry..........    20
                        Appropriations................................    28
                        Armed Services................................    18
                        Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs...........    22
                        Commerce, Science, and Transportation.........    20
                        Energy and Natural Resources..................    20
                        Environment and Public Works..................    18
                        Finance.......................................    20
                        Foreign Relations.............................    18
                        Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions........    18
                        Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs....    16
                        Judiciary.....................................    18

         25.3a      3. (a)\21\ Except as otherwise provided by paragraph 4
                of this rule, each of the following standing committees
                shall consist of the number of Senators set forth in the
                following

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                table on the line on which the name of that committee
                appears:
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                    \21\As amended by S. Res. 13, 97-1, Jan. 5, 1981; S.
                Res. 101, 97-1, Mar. 25, 1981; S. Res. 6, 98-1, Jan 3, 1983;
                S. Res. 88, 99-1, Mar. 5, 1985; S. Res. 14, 100-1, Jan. 6,
                1987; S. Res. 211, 100-1, May 12, 1987; S. Res. 43, 101-1,
                Feb. 2, 1989; S. Res. 85, 102-1, Mar. 19, 1991; S. Res. 135,
                102-1, June 4, 1991; S. Res. 18, 103-1, Jan. 21, 1993; S.
                Res. 130, 103-1, July 1, 1993; S. Res. 34, 104-1, Jan. 6,
                1995; S. Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9, 1997; S. Res. 354, 106-2,
                Sept. 12, 2000; S. Res. 123, 107-1, June 29, 2001.
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                        Committee:
                                                                      Members

                        Budget........................................    22
                        Rules and Administration......................    16
                        Veterans' Affairs.............................    14
                        Small Business and Entrepreneurship...........    18

         25.3b      (b)\22\ Each of the following committees and joint
                committees shall consist of the number of Senators (or
                Senate members, in the case of a joint committee) set forth
                in the following table on the line on which the name of that
                committee appears:
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                    \22\As amended by S. Res. 13, 97-1, Jan. 5, 1981; S.
                Res. 24, 97-1, Jan. 19, 1981; S. Res. 101, 97-1, Mar. 25,
                1981; S. Res. 338, 98-2, Feb. 9, 1984; S. Res. 85, 102-1,
                Mar. 19, 1991; S. Res. 135, 102-1, June 4, 1991; S. Res. 18,
                103-1, Jan. 21, 1993; S. Res. 34, 104-1, Jan. 6, 1995; S.
                Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9, 1997.
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                        Committee:\23\
                                                                      Members

                        Aging.........................................    18
                        Intelligence..................................    19
                        Joint Economic Committee......................    10
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                    \23\Pursuant to S. Res. 445, 108-2, Oct. 9, 2004, the
                Select Committee on Intelligence shall be treated as a
                committee listed under paragraph 2 of rule XXV of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate for purposes of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate. However, the resolution did not amend
                the Standing Rules of the Senate.
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         25.3c      (c)\24\ Each of the following committees and joint
                committees shall consist of the number of Senators (or
                Senate members, in the case of a joint committee) set forth
                in the following table on the line on which the name of that
                committee appears:
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                    \24\As amended by S. Res. 448, 96-2, Dec. 11, 1980; S.
                Res. 88, 99-1, Mar. 5, 1985; S. Res. 14, 100-1, Jan. 6,
                1987; S. Res. 100, 101-1, Apr. 11, 1989; S. Res. 44, 102-1,
                Feb. 5, 1991; S. Res. 18, 103-1, Jan. 21, 1993; S. Res. 34,
                104-1, Jan. 6, 1995; S. Res. 92, 104-1, Mar. 24, 1995; S.
                Res. 9, 105-1, Jan. 9, 1997.
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                        Committee:
                                                                      Members

                        Ethics........................................     6
                        Indian Affairs................................    14
                        Joint Committee on Taxation...................     5

         25.4a      4. (a) Except as otherwise provided by this paragraph--
                            (1) each Senator shall serve on two and no more
                        committees listed in paragraph 2; and
                            (2) each Senator may serve on only one committee
                        listed in paragraph 3 (a) or (b).

         25.4b      (b)(1) Each Senator may serve on not more than three
                subcommittees of each committee (other than the Committee on
                Appropriations) listed in paragraph 2 of which he is a
                member.

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                    (2) Each Senator may serve on not more than two
                subcommittees of a committee listed in paragraph 3 (a) or
                (b) of which he is a member.
                    (3) Notwithstanding subparagraphs (1) and (2), a Senator
                serving as chairman or ranking minority member of a
                standing, select, or special committee of the Senate or
                joint committee of the Congress may serve ex officio,
                without vote, as a member of any subcommittee of such
                committee or joint committee.
                    (4) No committee of the Senate may establish any sub-
                unit of that committee other than a subcommittee, unless the
                Senate by resolution has given permission therefor. For
                purposes of this subparagraph, any subunit of a joint
                committee shall be treated as a subcommittee.
         25.4c      (c) By agreement entered into by the majority leader and
                the minority leader, the membership of one or more standing
                committees may be increased temporarily from time to time by
                such number or numbers as may be required to accord to the
                majority party a majority of the membership of all standing
                committees. When any such temporary increase is necessary to
                accord to the majority party a majority of the membership of
                all standing committees, members of the majority party in
                such number as may be required for that purpose may serve as
                members of three standing committees listed in paragraph 2.
                No such temporary increase in the membership of any standing
                committee under this subparagraph shall be continued in
                effect after the need therefor has ended. No standing
                committee may be increased in membership under this
                subparagraph by more than two members in excess of the
                number prescribed for that committee by paragraph 2 or 3(a).
         25.4d      (d) A Senator may serve as a member of any joint
                committee of the Congress the Senate members of which are
                required by law to be appointed from a standing committee of
                the Senate of which he is a member, and service as a member
                of any such joint committee shall not be taken into account
                for purposes of subparagraph (a)(2).
         25.4e      (e)(1) No Senator shall serve at any time as chairman of
                more than one standing, select, or special committee of the
                Senate or joint committee of the Congress, except that a
                Senator may serve as chairman of any joint committee of the
                Congress having jurisdiction with respect to a subject
                matter which is directly related to the jurisdiction of a
                standing committee of which he is chairman.

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                    (2) No Senator shall serve at any time as chairman of
                more than one subcommittee of each standing, select, or
                special committee of the Senate or joint committee of the
                Congress of which he is a member.
                    (3) A Senator who is serving as the chairman of a
                committee listed in paragraph 2 may serve at any time as the
                chairman of only one subcommittee of all committees listed
                in paragraph 2 of which he is a member and may serve at any
                time as the chairman of only one subcommittee of each
                committee listed in paragraph 3 (a) or (b) of which he is a
                member. A Senator who is serving as the chairman of a
                committee listed in paragraph 3 (a) or (b) may not serve as
                the chairman of any subcommittee of that committee, and may
                serve at any time as the chairman of only one subcommittee
                of each committee listed in paragraph 2 of which he is a
                member. Any other Senator may serve as the chairman of only
                one subcommittee of each committee listed in paragraph 2,
                3(a), or 3(b) of which he is a member.
         25.4f      (f) A Senator serving on the Committee on Rules and
                Administration may not serve on any joint committee of the
                Congress unless the Senate members thereof are required by
                law to be appointed from the Committee on Rules and
                Administration, or unless such Senator served on the
                Committee on Rules and Administration and the Joint
                Committee on Taxation on the last day of the Ninety-eighth
                Congress.\25\
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         25.4g      (g) A Senator who on the day preceding the effective
                date of Title I of the Committee System Reorganization
                Amendments of 1977 was serving as the chairman or ranking
                minority member of the Committee on the District of Columbia
                or the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service may serve
                on the Committee on Governmental Affairs in addition to
                serving on two other standing committees listed in paragraph
                2. At the request of any such Senator, he shall be appointed
                to serve on such committee but, while serving on such
                committee and two other standing committees listed in
                paragraph 2, he may not serve on any committee listed in
                paragraph 3 (a) or (b) other than the Committee on Rules and
                Administration. The preceding provisions of this
                subparagraph shall apply with respect to any Senator only so
                long as his service as a member of the Committee on
                Governmental Affairs is continuous after the

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                date on which the appointment of the majority and minority
                members of the Committee on Governmental Affairs is
                initially completed.\26\
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                Subparagraph (h), omitted here, pertains to committee
                service of Senators during the 103rd Congress. Provisions
                for the 104th Congress were established by S. Res. 13 and
                17, Jan. 4, 1995, and S. Res. 27 and 29, Jan. 5, 1995. In
                subsequent Congresses, committee assignments made
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            26                            RULE XXVI

                                     COMMITTEE PROCEDURE

          26.1      1.\27\ Each standing committee, including any
                subcommittee of any such committee, is authorized to hold
                such hearings, to sit and act at such times and places
                during the sessions, recesses, and adjourned periods of the
                Senate, to require by subpoena or otherwise the attendance
                of such witnesses and the production of such correspondence,
                books, papers, and documents, to take such testimony and to
                make such expenditures out of the contingent fund of the
                Senate as may be authorized by resolutions of the Senate.
                Each such committee may make investigations into any matter
                within its jurisdiction, may report such hearings as may be
                had by it, and may employ stenographic assistance at a cost
                not exceeding the amount prescribed by the Committee on
                Rules and Administration.\28\ The expenses of the committee
                shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon
                vouchers approved by the chairman.
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                    \27\As amended by S. Res. 281, 96-2, Mar. 11, 1980,
                effective Feb. 28, 1981.
                    \28\Pursuant to 2 U.S.C. 4331, the Committee on Rules
                and Administration issues ``Regulations Governing Rates
                Payable to Commercial Reporting Firms for Reporting
                Committee Hearings in the Senate.''
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          26.2      2.\29\ Each committee\30\ shall adopt rules (not
                inconsistent with the Rules of the Senate) governing the
                procedure of such committee. The rules of each committee
                shall be published in the Congressional Record not later
                than March 1 of the first year of each Congress, except that
                if any such committee is established on or after February 1
                of a year, the rules of that committee during the year of
                establishment shall be published in the Congressional Record
                not later than sixty days after such establishment. Any
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                Record.
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                    \30\The term ``each committee'' when used in these rules
                includes standing, select, and special committees unless
                otherwise specified.
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          26.3      3. Each standing committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations) shall fix regular weekly, biweekly, or
                monthly meeting days for the transaction of business before
                the committee and additional meetings may be called by the
                chairman as he may deem necessary. If at least three members
                of any such committee desire that a special meeting of the
                committee be called by the chairman, those members may file
                in the offices of the committee their written request to the
                chairman for that special meeting. Immediately upon the
                filing of the request, the clerk of the committee shall
                notify the chairman of the filing of the request. If, within
                three calendar days after the filing of the request, the
                chairman does not call the requested special meeting, to be
                held within seven calendar days after the filing of the
                request, a majority of the members of the committee may file
                in the offices of the committee their written notice that a
                special meeting of the committee will be held, specifying
                the date and hour of that special meeting. The committee
                shall meet on that date and hour. Immediately upon the
                filing of the notice, the clerk of the committee shall
                notify all members of the committee that such special
                meeting will be held and inform them of its date and hour.
                If the chairman of any such committee is not present at any
                regular, additional, or special meeting of the committee,
                the ranking member of the majority party on the committee
                who is present shall preside at that meeting.
         26.4a      4. (a) Each committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) shall make
                public announcement of the date, place, and subject matter
                of any hearing to be conducted by the committee on any
                measure or matter at least one week before the commencement
                of that hearing unless the committee determines that there
                is good cause to begin such hearing at an earlier date.
         26.4b      (b) Each committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations) shall require each witness who is to appear
                before the committee in any hearing to file with the clerk
                of the committee, at least one day before the date of the
                appearance of that witness, a written statement of his
                proposed testimony unless the committee chairman and the
                ranking minority member determine that there is good cause
                for noncompliance. If so requested by any committee, the
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                of the committee shall prepare for the use of the members of
                the committee before each day of hearing before the
                committee a digest of the statements which have been so
                filed by witnesses who are to appear before the committee on
                that day.
         26.4c      (c) After the conclusion of each day of hearing, if so
                requested by any committee, the staff shall prepare for the
                use of the members of the committee a summary of the
                testimony given before the committee on that day. After
                approval by the chairman and the ranking minority member of
                the committee, each such summary may be printed as a part of
                the committee hearings if such hearings are ordered by the
                committee to be printed.
         26.4d      (d) Whenever any hearing is conducted by a committee
                (except the Committee on Appropriations) upon any measure or
                matter, the minority on the committee shall be entitled,
                upon request made by a majority of the minority members to
                the chairman before the completion of such hearing, to call
                witnesses selected by the minority to testify with respect
                to the measure or matter during at least one day of hearing
                thereon.
         26.5a      5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of the rules,
                when the Senate is in session, no committee of the Senate or
                any subcommittee thereof may meet, without special leave,
                after the conclusion of the first two hours after the
                meeting of the Senate commenced and in no case after two
                o'clock postmeridian unless consent therefor has been
                obtained from the majority leader and the minority leader
                (or in the event of the absence of either of such leaders,
                from his designee). The prohibition contained in the
                preceding sentence shall not apply to the Committee on
                Appropriations or the Committee on the Budget. The majority
                leader or his designee shall announce to the Senate whenever
                consent has been given under this subparagraph and shall
                state the time and place of such meeting. The right to make
                such announcement of consent shall have the same priority as
                the filing of a cloture motion.
         26.5b      (b) Each meeting of a committee, or any subcommittee
                thereof, including meetings to conduct hearings, shall be
                open to the public, except that a meeting or series of
                meetings by a committee or a subcommittee thereof on the
                same subject for a period of no more than fourteen calendar
                days may be closed to the public on a motion made and
                seconded to go into closed session to discuss only whether
                the matters enumerated in clauses (1) through (6) would
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                the meeting to be closed, followed immediately by a record
                vote in open session by a majority of the members of the
                committee or subcommittee when it is determined that the
                matters to be discussed or the testimony to be taken at such
                meeting or meetings--
                            (1) will disclose matters necessary to be kept
                        secret in the interests of national defense or the
                        confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the
                        United States;
                            (2) will relate solely to matters of committee
                        staff personnel or internal staff management or
                        procedure;
                            (3) will tend to charge an individual with crime
                        or misconduct, to disgrace or injure the
                        professional standing of an individual, or otherwise
                        to expose an individual to public contempt or
                        obloquy, or will represent a clearly unwarranted
                        invasion of the privacy of an individual;
                            (4) will disclose the identity of any informer
                        or law enforcement agent or will disclose any
                        information relating to the investigation or
                        prosecution of a criminal offense that is required
                        to be kept secret in the interests of effective law
                        enforcement;
                            (5) will disclose information relating to the
                        trade secrets of financial or commercial information
                        pertaining specifically to a given person if--
                                    (A) an Act of Congress requires the
                                information to be kept confidential by
                                Government officers and employees; or
                                    (B) the information has been obtained by
                                the Government on a confidential basis,
                                other than through an application by such
                                person for a specific Government financial
                                or other benefit, and is required to be kept
                                secret in order to prevent undue injury to
                                the competitive position of such person; or
                            (6) may divulge matters required to be kept
                        confidential under other provisions of law or
                        Government regulations.

         26.5c      (c) Whenever any hearing conducted by any such committee
                or subcommittee is open to the public, that hearing may be
                broadcast by radio or television, or both, under such rules
                as the committee or subcommittee may adopt.
         26.5d      (d) Whenever disorder arises during a committee meeting
                that is open to the public, or any demonstration of approval
                or disapproval is indulged in by any person in attendance at
                any such meeting, it shall be the duty of the Chair to

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                enforce order on his own initiative and without any point of
                order being made by a Senator. When the Chair finds it
                necessary to maintain order, he shall have the power to
                clear the room, and the committee may act in closed session
                for so long as there is doubt of the assurance of order.
         26.5e      (e)(1)\31\ Each committee shall prepare and keep a
                complete transcript or electronic recording adequate to
                fully record the proceeding of each meeting or conference
                whether or not such meeting or any part thereof is closed
                under this paragraph, unless a majority of its members vote
                to forgo such a record.
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                    (2)(A)\32\ Except with respect to meetings closed in
                accordance with this rule, each committee and subcommittee
                shall make publicly available through the Internet a video
                recording, audio recording, or transcript of any meeting not
                later than 21 business days after the meeting occurs.
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                    (B) Information required by subclause (A) shall be
                available until the end of the Congress following the date
                of the meeting.
                    (C) The Committee on Rules and Administration may waive
                this clause upon request based on the inability of a
                committee or subcommittee to comply with this clause due to
                technical or logistical reasons.
          26.6      6. Morning meetings of committees and subcommittees
                thereof shall be scheduled for one or both of the periods
                prescribed in this paragraph. The first period shall end at
                eleven o'clock antemeridian. The second period shall begin
                at eleven o'clock antemeridian and end at two o'clock
                postmeridian.
         26.7a      7. (a)(1) Except as provided in this paragraph, each
                committee, and each subcommittee thereof is authorized to
                fix the number of its members (but not less than one-third
                of its entire membership) who shall constitute a quorum
                thereof for the transaction of such business as may be
                considered by said committee, except that no measure or
                matter or recommendation shall be reported from any
                committee unless a majority of the committee were physically
                present.
                    (2) Each such committee, or subcommittee, is authorized
                to fix a lesser number than one-third of its entire member

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                ship who shall constitute a quorum thereof for the purpose
                of taking sworn testimony.
                    (3) The vote of any committee to report a measure or
                matter shall require the concurrence of a majority of the
                members of the committee who are present. No vote of any
                member of any committee to report a measure or matter may be
                cast by proxy if rules adopted by such committee forbid the
                casting of votes for that purpose by proxy; however, proxies
                may not be voted when the absent committee member has not
                been informed of the matter on which he is being recorded
                and has not affirmatively requested that he be so recorded.
                Action by any committee in reporting any measure or matter
                in accordance with the requirements of this subparagraph
                shall constitute the ratification by the committee of all
                action theretofore taken by the committee with respect to
                that measure or matter, including votes taken upon the
                measure or matter or any amendment thereto, and no point of
                order shall lie with respect to that measure or matter on
                the ground that such previous action with respect thereto by
                such committee was not taken in compliance with such
                requirements.
         26.7b      (b) Each committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations) shall keep a complete record of all
                committee action. Such record shall include a record of the
                votes on any question on which a record vote is demanded.
                The results of rollcall votes taken in any meeting of any
                committee upon any measure, or any amendment thereto, shall
                be announced in the committee report on that measure unless
                previously announced by the committee, and such announcement
                shall include a tabulation of the votes cast in favor of and
                the votes cast in opposition to each such measure and
                amendment by each member of the committee who was present at
                that meeting.
         26.7c      (c) Whenever any committee by rollcall vote reports any
                measure or matter, the report of the committee upon such
                measure or matter shall include a tabulation of the votes
                cast by each member of the committee in favor of and in
                opposition to such measure or matter. Nothing contained in
                this subparagraph shall abrogate the power of any committee
                to adopt rules--
                            (1) providing for proxy voting on all matters
                        other than the reporting of a measure or matter, or
                            (2) providing in accordance with subparagraph
                        (a) for a lesser number as a quorum for any action
                        other than the reporting of a measure or matter.

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         26.8a      8. (a) In order to assist the Senate in--
                            (1) its analysis, appraisal, and evaluation of
                        the application, administration, and execution of
                        the laws enacted by the Congress, and
                            (2) its formulation, consideration, and
                        enactment of such modifications of or changes in
                        those laws, and of such additional legislation, as
                        may be necessary or appropriate, each standing
                        committee (except the Committees on Appropriations
                        and the Budget), shall review and study, on a
                        continuing basis the application, administration,
                        and execution of those laws, or parts of laws, the
                        subject matter of which is within the legislative
                        jurisdiction of that committee. Such committees may
                        carry out the required analysis, appraisal, and
                        evaluation themselves, or by contract, or may
                        require a government agency to do so and furnish a
                        report thereon to the Senate. Such committees may
                        rely on such techniques as pilot testing, analysis
                        of costs in comparison with benefits, or provision
                        for evaluation after a defined period of time.
         26.8b      (b) In each odd-numbered year, each such committee shall
                submit, not later than March 31, to the Senate, a report on
                the activities of that committee under this paragraph during
                the Congress ending at noon on January 3 of such year.
         26.9a      9.\33\ (a) Except as provided in subparagraph (b), each
                committee shall report one authorization resolution each
                year authorizing the committee to make expenditures out of
                the contingent fund of the Senate to defray its expenses,
                including the compensation of members of its staff and
                agency contributions related to such compensation, during
                the period beginning on March 1 of such year and ending on
                the last day of February of the following year. Such annual
                authorization resolution shall be reported not later than
                January 31 of each year, except that, whenever the
                designation of members of standing committees of the Senate
                occurs during the first session of a Congress at a date
                later than January 20, such resolution may be reported at
                any time within thirty days after the date on which the
                designation of such members is completed. After the annual
                authorization resolution of a committee for a year has been
                agreed to, such committee may procure authorization to make
                additional expenditures out of the contingent

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                fund of the Senate during that year only by reporting a
                supplemental authorization resolution. Each supplemental
                authorization resolution reported by a committee shall amend
                the annual authorization resolution of such committee for
                that year and shall be accompanied by a report specifying
                with particularity the purpose for which such authorization
                is sought and the reason why such authorization could not
                have been sought at the time of the submission by such
                committee of its annual authorization resolution for that
                year.
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         26.9b      (b) In lieu of the procedure provided in subparagraph
                (a), the Committee on Rules and Administration may--
                            (1) direct each committee to report an
                        authorization resolution for a two year budget
                        period beginning on March 1 of the first session of
                        a Congress; and
                            (2) report one authorization resolution
                        containing more than one committee authorization for
                        a one year or two year budget period.

        26.10a      10. (a) All committee hearings, records, data, charts,
                and files shall be kept separate and distinct from the
                congressional office records of the Member serving as
                chairman of the committee; and such records shall be the
                property of the Senate and all members of the committee and
                the Senate shall have access to such records. Each committee
                is authorized to have printed and bound such testimony and
                other data presented at hearings held by the committee.
        26.10b      (b) It shall be the duty of the chairman of each
                committee to report or cause to be reported promptly to the
                Senate any measure approved by his committee and to take or
                cause to be taken necessary steps to bring the matter to a
                vote. In any event, the report of any committee upon a
                measure which has been approved by the committee shall be
                filed within seven calendar days (exclusive of days on which
                the Senate is not in session) after the day on which there
                has been filed with the clerk of the committee a written and
                signed request of a majority of the committee for the
                reporting of that measure. Upon the filing of any such
                request, the clerk of the committee shall transmit
                immediately to the chairman of the committee notice of the
                filing of that request. This subparagraph does not apply to
                the Committee on Appropriations.
        26.10c      (c) If at the time of approval of a measure or matter by
                any committee (except for the Committee on Appropriations),
                any member of the committee gives notice of inten

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                tion to file supplemental, minority, or additional views,
                that member shall be entitled to not less than three
                calendar days in which to file such views, in writing, with
                the clerk of the committee. All such views so filed by one
                or more members of the committee shall be included within,
                and shall be a part of, the report filed by the committee
                with respect to that measure or matter. The report of the
                committee upon that measure or matter shall be printed in a
                single volume which--
                            (1) shall include all supplemental, minority, or
                        additional views which have been submitted by the
                        time of the filing of the report, and
                            (2) shall bear upon its cover a recital that
                        supplemental, minority, or additional views are
                        included as part of the report.

                    This subparagraph does not preclude--
                            (A) the immediate filing and printing of a
                        committee report unless timely request for the
                        opportunity to file supplemental, minority, or
                        additional views has been made as provided by this
                        subparagraph; or
                            (B) the filing by any such committee of any
                        supplemental report upon any measure or matter which
                        may be required for the correction of any technical
                        error in a previous report made by that committee
                        upon that measure or matter.
        26.11a      11. (a) The report accompanying each bill or joint
                resolution of a public character reported by any committee
                (except the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
                the Budget) shall contain--
                            (1) an estimate, made by such committee, of the
                        costs which would be incurred in carrying out such
                        bill or joint resolution in the fiscal year in which
                        it is reported and in each of the five fiscal years
                        following such fiscal year (or for the authorized
                        duration of any program authorized by such bill or
                        joint resolution, if less than five years), except
                        that, in the case of measures affecting the
                        revenues, such reports shall require only an
                        estimate of the gain or loss in revenues for a one-
                        year period; and
                            (2) a comparison of the estimate of costs
                        described in subparagraph (1) made by such committee
                        with any estimate of costs made by any Federal
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                            (3) in lieu of such estimate or comparison, or
                        both, a statement of the reasons why compliance by
                        the committee with the requirements of subparagraph
                        (1) or (2), or both, is impracticable.
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                    Note.--Each report accompanying any bill or joint
                resolution relating to terms and conditions of employment or
                access to public services or accommodations reported by a
                committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate
                shall describe the manner in which the provisions of the
                bill or joint resolution apply to the legislative branch; or
                in the case of a provision not applicable to the legislative
                branch, include a statement of the reasons the provision
                does not apply.
                Pub. L. 104-1, Title I, Sec. 102, Jan. 23, 1995, 2 U.S.C.
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        26.11b      (b) Each such report (except those by the Committee on
                Appropriations) shall also contain--
                            (1) an evaluation, made by such committee, of
                        the regulatory impact which would be incurred in
                        carrying out the bill or joint resolution. The
                        evaluation shall include (A) an estimate of the
                        numbers of individuals and businesses who would be
                        regulated and a determination of the groups and
                        classes of such individuals and businesses, (B) a
                        determination of the economic impact of such
                        regulation on the individuals, consumers, and
                        businesses affected, (C) a determination of the
                        impact on the personal privacy of the individuals
                        affected, and (D) a determination of the amount of
                        additional paperwork that will result from the
                        regulations to be promulgated pursuant to the bill
                        or joint resolution, which determination may
                        include, but need not be limited to, estimates of
                        the amount of time and financial costs required of
                        affected parties, showing whether the effects of the
                        bill or joint resolution could be substantial, as
                        well as reasonable estimates of the recordkeeping
                        requirements that may be associated with the bill or
                        joint resolution; or
                            (2) in lieu of such evaluation, a statement of
                        the reasons why compliance by the committee with the
                        requirements of clause (1) is impracticable.

        26.11c      (c) It shall not be in order for the Senate to consider
                any such bill or joint resolution if the report of the
                committee on such bill or joint resolution does not comply
                with the provisions of subparagraphs (a) and (b) on the
                objection of any Senator.
         26.12      12. Whenever a committee reports a bill or a joint
                resolution repealing or amending any statute or part thereof
                it shall make a report thereon and shall include in such
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                the staff of such committee) (a) the text of the statute or
                part thereof which is proposed to be repealed; and (b) a
                comparative print of that part of the bill or joint
                resolution making the amendment and of the statute or part
                thereof proposed to be amended, showing by stricken-through
                type and italics, parallel columns, or other appropriate
                typographical devices the omissions and insertions which
                would be made by the bill or joint resolution if enacted in
                the form recommended by the committee. This paragraph shall
                not apply to any such report in which it is stated that, in
                the opinion of the committee, it is necessary to dispense
                with the requirements of this subsection to expedite the
                business of the Senate.
        26.13a      13. (a) Each committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations) which has legislative jurisdiction shall, in
                its consideration of all bills and joint resolutions of a
                public character within its jurisdiction, endeavor to insure
                that--
                            (1) all continuing programs of the Federal
                        Government and of the government of the District of
                        Columbia, within the jurisdiction of such committee
                        or joint committee, are designed; and
                            (2) all continuing activities of Federal
                        agencies, within the jurisdiction of such committee
                        or joint committee, are carried on; so that, to the
                        extent consistent with the nature, requirements, and
                        objectives of those programs and activities,
                        appropriations therefor will be made annually.
        26.13b      (b) Each committee (except the Committee on
                Appropriations) shall with respect to any continuing program
                within its jurisdiction for which appropriations are not
                made annually, review such program, from time to time, in
                order to ascertain whether such program could be modified so
                that appropriations therefor would be made annually.

            27                           RULE XXVII

                                       COMMITTEE STAFF

          27.1      1.\34\ Staff members appointed to assist minority
                members of committees pursuant to authority of a resolution
                described in paragraph 9 of rule XXVI or other Senate
                resolution shall be accorded equitable treatment with
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                and the accessibility of committee records.
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                281, 96-2, Mar. 11, 1980, effective Feb. 28, 1981.
                Accordingly, subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), and (d) of
                paragraph 2 were renumbered as paragraphs 1, 2, 3, and 4,
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          27.2      2. The minority shall receive fair consideration in the
                appointment of staff personnel pursuant to authority of a
                resolution described in paragraph 9 of rule XXVI.
          27.3      3. The staffs of committees (including personnel
                appointed pursuant to authority of a resolution described in
                paragraph 9 of rule XXVI or other Senate resolution) should
                reflect the relative number of majority and minority members
                of committees. A majority of the minority members of any
                committee may, by resolution, request that at least one-
                third of all funds of the committee for personnel (other
                than those funds determined by the chairman and ranking
                minority member to be allocated for the administrative and
                clerical functions of the committee as a whole) be allocated
                to the minority members of such committee for compensation
                of minority staff as the minority members may decide. The
                committee shall thereafter adjust its budget to comply with
                such resolution. Such adjustment shall be equitably made
                over a four-year period, commencing July 1, 1977, with not
                less than one-half being made in two years. Upon request by
                a majority of the minority members of any committee by
                resolution, proportionate space, equipment, and facilities
                shall be provided for such minority staff.
          27.4      4. No committee shall appoint to its staff any experts
                or other personnel detailed or assigned from any department
                or agency of the Government, except with the written
                permission of the Committee on Rules and Administration.

            28                           RULE XXVIII

                        CONFERENCE COMMITTEES; REPORTS; OPEN MEETINGS

          28.1      1.\35\ The presentation of reports of committees of
                conference shall always be in order when available on each
                Senator's desk except when the Journal is being read or a
                question of order or a motion to adjourn is pending, or
                while the Senate is voting or ascertaining the presence of a
                quorum; and when received the question of proceeding to the
                consideration of the report, if raised, shall be immediately
                put, and shall be determined without debate.
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         28.2a      2.\36\ (a) When a message from the House of
                Representatives is laid before the Senate, it shall be in
                order for a single, non-divisible motion to be made that
                includes--
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                              (1) a motion to disagree to a House amendment
                        or insist upon a Senate amendment;
                              (2) a motion to request a committee of
                        conference with the House or to agree to a request
                        by the House for a committee of conference; and
                              (3) a motion to authorize the Presiding
                        Officer to appoint conferees (or a motion to appoint
                        conferees).
         28.2b      (b) If a cloture motion is presented on a motion made
                pursuant to subparagraph (a), the motion shall be debatable
                for no more than 2 hours, equally divided in the usual form,
                after which the Presiding Officer, or the clerk at the
                direction of the Presiding Officer, shall lay the motion
                before the Senate. If cloture is then invoked on the motion,
                the question shall be on the motion, without further debate.
         28.3a      3. (a)\37\ Conferees shall not insert in their report
                matter not committed to them by either House, nor shall they
                strike from the bill matter agreed to by both Houses.
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                14, 2007, and paragraphs 5 and 6 were added. Paragraphs 3
                through 6 renumbered and amended by S. Res. 16, 113-1, Jan.
                24, 2013.
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         28.3b      (b) If matter which was agreed to by both Houses is
                stricken from the bill a point of order may be made against
                the report, and if the point of order is sustained, the
                report is rejected or shall be recommitted to the committee
                of conference if the House of Representatives has not
                already acted thereon.
         28.3c      (c) If new matter is inserted in the report, a point of
                order may be made against the conference report and it shall
                be disposed of as provided under paragraph 5.
         28.4a      4. (a) In any case in which a disagreement to an
                amendment in the nature of a substitute has been referred to
                conferees--
                            (1) it shall be in order for the conferees to
                        report a substitute on the same subject matter;
                            (2) the conferees may not include in the report
                        matter not committed to them by either House; and
                            (3) the conferees may include in their report in
                        any such case matter which is a germane modification
                        of subjects in disagreement.
         28.4b      (b) In any case in which the conferees violate
                subparagraph (a), a point of order may be made against the
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                ference report and it shall be disposed of as provided under
                paragraph 5.
         28.5a      5. (a) A Senator may raise a point of order that one or
                more provisions of a conference report violates paragraph 3
                or paragraph 4, as the case may be. The Presiding Officer
                may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the
                provisions against which the Senator raised the point of
                order.
         28.5b      (b) If the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order
                as to any of the provisions against which the Senator raised
                the point of order, then those provisions against which the
                Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be
                stricken. After all other points of order under this
                paragraph have been disposed of--
                            (1) the Senate shall proceed to consider the
                        question of whether the Senate should recede from
                        its amendment to the House bill, or its disagreement
                        to the amendment of the House, and concur with a
                        further amendment, which further amendment shall
                        consist of only that portion of the conference
                        report that has not been stricken;
                            (2) the question in clause (1) shall be decided
                        under the same debate limitation as the conference
                        report; and
                            (3) no further amendment shall be in order.

         28.6a      6. (a) Any Senator may move to waive any or all points
                of order under paragraph 3 or 4 with respect to the pending
                conference report by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of
                the Members, duly chosen and sworn. All motions to waive
                under this paragraph shall be debatable collectively for not
                to exceed 1 hour equally divided between the Majority Leader
                and the Minority Leader or their designees. A motion to
                waive all points of order under this paragraph shall not be
                amendable.
         28.6b      (b) All appeals from rulings of the Chair under
                paragraph 5 shall be debatable collectively for not to
                exceed 1 hour, equally divided between the Majority and the
                Minority Leader or their designees. An affirmative vote of
                three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and
                sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal
                of the ruling of the Chair under paragraph 5.

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          28.7      7.\38\ Each report made by a committee of conference to
                the Senate shall be printed as a report of the Senate. As so
                printed, such report shall be accompanied by an explanatory
                statement prepared jointly by the conferees on the part of
                the House and the conferees on the part of the Senate. Such
                statement shall be sufficiently detailed and explicit to
                inform the Senate as to the effect which the amendments or
                propositions contained in such report will have upon the
                measure to which those amendments or propositions relate.
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                Sep. 14, 2007, and paragraph 10 was added. Paragraphs 7
                through 10 renumbered by S. Res. 16, 113-1, Jan. 24, 2013.
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          28.8      8. If time for debate in the consideration of any report
                of a committee of conference upon the floor of the Senate is
                limited, the time allotted for debate shall be equally
                divided between the majority party and the minority party.
          28.9      9. Each conference committee between the Senate and the
                House of Representatives shall be open to the public except
                when managers of either the Senate or the House of
                Representatives in open session determine by a rollcall vote
                of a majority of those managers present, that all or part of
                the remainder of the meeting on the day of the vote shall be
                closed to the public.
        28.10a      10. (a)(1) It shall not be in order to vote on the
                adoption of a report of a committee of conference unless
                such report has been available to Members and to the general
                public for at least 48 hours before such vote. If a point of
                order is sustained under this paragraph, then the conference
                report shall be set aside.
                    (2) For purposes of this paragraph, a report of a
                committee of conference is made available to the general
                public as of the time it is posted on a publicly accessible
                website controlled by a Member, committee, Library of
                Congress, or other office of Congress, or the Government
                Printing Office, as reported to the Presiding Officer by the
                Secretary of the Senate.
        28.10b      (b)(1) This paragraph may be waived in the Senate with
                respect to the pending conference report by an affirmative
                vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn.
                A motion to waive this paragraph shall be debatable for not
                to exceed 1 hour equally divided between the Majority Leader
                and the Minority Leader or their designees.
                    (2) An affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members,
                duly chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an

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                appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised
                under this paragraph. An appeal of the ruling of the Chair
                shall be debatable for not to exceed 1 hour equally divided
                between the Majority and the Minority Leader or their
                designees.
        28.10c      (c) This paragraph may be waived by joint agreement of
                the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader of the Senate,
                upon their certification that such waiver is necessary as a
                result of a significant disruption to Senate facilities or
                to the availability of the Internet.

            29                            RULE XXIX

                                     EXECUTIVE SESSIONS

          29.1      1. When the President of the United States shall meet
                the Senate in the Senate Chamber for the consideration of
                Executive business, he shall have a seat on the right of the
                Presiding Officer. When the Senate shall be convened by the
                President of the United States to any other place, the
                Presiding Officer of the Senate and the Senators shall
                attend at the place appointed, with the necessary officers
                of the Senate.
          29.2      2. When acting upon confidential or Executive business,
                unless the same shall be considered in open Executive
                session, the Senate Chamber shall be cleared of all persons
                except the Secretary, the Assistant Secretary, the Principal
                Legislative Clerk, the Parliamentarian, the Executive Clerk,
                the Minute and Journal Clerk, the Sergeant at Arms, the
                Secretaries to the Majority and the Minority, and such other
                officers as the Presiding Officer shall think necessary; and
                all such officers shall be sworn to secrecy.
          29.3      3. All confidential communications made by the President
                of the United States to the Senate shall be by the Senators
                and the officers of the Senate kept secret; and all treaties
                which may be laid before the Senate, and all remarks, votes,
                and proceedings thereon shall also be kept secret, until the
                Senate shall, by their resolution, take off the injunction
                of secrecy.
          29.4      4. Whenever the injunction of secrecy shall be removed
                from any part of the proceedings of the Senate in closed
                Executive or legislative session, the order of the Senate
                removing the same shall be entered in the Legislative
                Journal as well as in the Executive Journal, and shall be
                published in the Congressional Record under the direction of
                the Secretary of the Senate.

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          29.5      5.\39\ Any Senator, officer or employee of the Senate
                who shall disclose the secret or confidential business or
                proceedings of the Senate, including the business and
                proceedings of the committees, subcommittees and offices of
                the Senate shall be liable, if a Senator, to suffer
                expulsion from the body; and if an officer or employee, to
                dismissal from the service of the Senate, and to punishment
                for contempt.
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          29.6      6. Whenever, by the request of the Senate or any
                committee thereof, any documents or papers shall be
                communicated to the Senate by the President or the head of
                any department relating to any matter pending in the Senate,
                the proceedings in regard to which are secret or
                confidential under the rules, said documents and papers
                shall be considered as confidential, and shall not be
                disclosed without leave of the Senate.

            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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         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.

            31                            RULE XXXI

                        EXECUTIVE SESSION--PROCEEDINGS ON NOMINATIONS

          31.1      1. When nominations shall be made by the President of
                the United States to the Senate, they shall, unless
                otherwise ordered, be referred to appropriate committees;
                and the final question on every nomination shall be, ``Will
                the Senate advise and consent to this nomination?'' which
                question shall not be put on the same day on which the
                nomination is received, nor on the day on which it may be
                reported by a committee, unless by unanimous consent.
          31.2      2. All business in the Senate shall be transacted in
                open session, unless the Senate as provided in rule XXI by a
                majority vote shall determine that a particular nomination,
                treaty, or other matter shall be considered in closed
                executive session, in which case all subsequent proceedings
                with respect to said nomination, treaty, or other matter
                shall be kept secret: Provided, That the injunction of
                secrecy as to the whole or any part of proceedings in closed
                executive session may be removed on motion adopted by a
                majority vote of the Senate in closed executive session:
                Provided further, That any Senator may make public his vote
                in closed executive session.
          31.3      3. When a nomination is confirmed or rejected, any
                Senator voting in the majority may move for a
                reconsideration on the same day on which the vote was taken,
                or on either of the next two days of actual executive
                session of the Senate; but if a notification of the
                confirmation or rejection of a nomination shall have been
                sent to the President before the expiration of the time
                within which a motion to reconsider may be made, the motion
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                be accompanied by a motion to request the President to
                return such notification to the Senate. Any motion to
                reconsider the vote on a nomination may be laid on the table
                without prejudice to the nomination, and shall be a final
                disposition of such motion.
          31.4      4. Nominations confirmed or rejected by the Senate shall
                not be returned by the Secretary to the President until the
                expiration of the time limited for making a motion to
                reconsider the same, or while a motion to reconsider is
                pending unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.
          31.5      5. When the Senate shall adjourn or take a recess for
                more than thirty days, all motions to reconsider a vote upon
                a nomination which has been confirmed or rejected by the
                Senate, which shall be pending at the time of taking such
                adjournment or recess, shall fall; and the Secretary shall
                return all such nominations to the President as confirmed or
                rejected by the Senate, as the case may be.
          31.6      6. Nominations neither confirmed nor rejected during the
                session at which they are made shall not be acted upon at
                any succeeding session without being again made to the
                Senate by the President; and if the Senate shall adjourn or
                take a recess for more than thirty days, all nominations
                pending and not finally acted upon at the time of taking
                such adjournment or recess shall be returned by the
                Secretary to the President, and shall not again be
                considered unless they shall again be made to the Senate by
                the President.
         31.7a      7. (a) The Official Reporters shall be furnished with a
                list of nominations to office after the proceedings of the
                day on which they are received, and a like list of all
                confirmations and rejections.
         31.7b      (b) All nominations to office shall be prepared for the
                printer by the Official Reporter, and printed in the
                Congressional Record, after the proceedings of the day in
                which they are received, also nominations recalled, and
                confirmed.
         31.7c      (c) The Secretary shall furnish to the press, and to the
                public upon request, the names of nominees confirmed or
                rejected on the day on which a final vote shall be had,
                except when otherwise ordered by the Senate.

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            32                           RULE XXXII

                THE PRESIDENT FURNISHED WITH COPIES OF RECORDS OF EXECUTIVE
                                          SESSIONS

                    The President of the United States shall, from time to
                time, be furnished with an authenticated transcript of the
                public executive records of the Senate, but no further
                extract from the Executive Journal shall be furnished by the
                Secretary, except by special order of the Senate; and no
                paper, except original treaties transmitted to the Senate by
                the President of the United States, and finally acted upon
                by the Senate, shall be delivered from the office of the
                Secretary without an order of the Senate for that purpose.

            33                           RULE XXXIII

                         SENATE CHAMBER--SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL

          33.1      1. The Senate Chamber shall not be granted for any other
                purpose than for the use of the Senate; no smoking shall be
                permitted at any time on the floor of the Senate, or lighted
                cigars, cigarettes, or pipes be brought into the Chamber.
          33.2      2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Rules and
                Administration to make all rules and regulations respecting
                such parts of the Capitol, its passages and galleries,
                including the restaurant and the Senate Office Buildings, as
                are or may be set apart for the use of the Senate and its
                officers, to be enforced under the direction of the
                Presiding Officer. The Committee shall make such regulations
                respecting the reporters' galleries of the Senate, together
                with the adjoining rooms and facilities, as will confine
                their occupancy and use to bona fide reporters of newspapers
                and periodicals, and of news or press associations for daily
                news dissemination through radio, television, wires, and
                cables, and similar media of transmission. These regulations
                shall so provide for the use of such space and facilities as
                fairly to distribute their use to all such media of news
                dissemination.

            34                           RULE XXXIV

                                 PUBLIC FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

          34.1      1. For purposes of this rule, the provisions of Title I
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                be a rule of the Senate as it pertains to Members, officers,
                and employees of the Senate.
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                the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 as amended are codified
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         34.2a      2. (a)\41\ The Select Committee on Ethics shall transmit
                a copy of each report filed with it under Title I of the
                Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (other than a report filed
                by a Member of Congress) to the head of the employing office
                of the individual filing the report.
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         34.2b      (b) For purposes of this rule, the head of the employing
                office shall be--
                            (1) in the case of an employee of a Member, the
                        Member by whom that person is employed;
                            (2) in the case of an employee of a Committee,
                        the chairman and ranking minority member of such
                        Committee;
                            (3) in the case of an employee on the leadership
                        staff, the Member of the leadership on whose staff
                        such person serves; and
                            (4) in the case of any other employee of the
                        legislative branch, the head of the office in which
                        such individual serves.
          34.3      3.\42\ In addition to the requirements of paragraph 1,
                Members, officers, and employees of the Senate shall include
                in each report filed under paragraph 1\43\ the following
                additional information:
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                    \42\Paragraphs 3 and 4 added by S. Res. 158, 104-1, July
                28, 1995, effective Jan. 1, 1996, as amended by S. Res. 198,
                104-1, Dec. 7, 1995.
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         34.3a

                            (a) For purposes of section 102(a)(1)(B) of the
                        Ethics in Government Act of 1978 additional
                        categories of income as follows:
                                    (1) greater than $1,000,000 but not more
                                than $5,000,000, or
                                    (2) greater than $5,000,000.
         34.3b

                            (b) For purposes of section 102(d)(1) of the
                        Ethics in Government Act of 1978 additional
                        categories of value\44\ as follows:
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                                    (1) greater than $1,000,000 but not more
                                than $5,000,000;
                                    (2) greater than $5,000,000 but not more
                                than $25,000,000;

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                                    (3) greater than $25,000,000 but not
                                more than $50,000,000; and
                                    (4) greater than $50,000,000.
         34.3c

                            (c) For purposes of this paragraph and section
                        102 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978,
                        additional categories with amounts or values greater
                        than $1,000,000 set forth in section 102(a)(1)(B)
                        and 102(d)(1) shall apply to the income, assets, or
                        liabilities of spouses and dependent children only
                        if the income, assets, or liabilities are held
                        jointly with the reporting individual. All other
                        income, assets, or liabilities of the spouse or
                        dependent children required to be reported under
                        section 102 and this paragraph in an amount of value
                        greater than $1,000,000 shall be categorized only as
                        an amount or value greater than $1,000,000.

          34.4      4.\45\ In addition to the requirements of paragraph 1,
                Members, officers, and employees of the Senate shall include
                in each report filed under paragraph 1\46\ an additional
                statement under section 102(a) of the Ethics in Government
                Act of 1978 listing the category of the total cash value of
                any interest of the reporting individual in a qualified
                blind trust as provided in section 102(d)(1) of the Ethics
                in Government Act of 1978, unless the trust instrument was
                executed prior to July 24, 1995 and precludes the
                beneficiary from receiving information on the total cash
                value of any interest in the qualified blind trust.
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                    \45\Effective with respect to reports filed under Title
                I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 for calendar year
                1996 and thereafter.
                    \46\Renumbered by S. Res. 198, 104-1, Dec. 7, 1995.

            35                            RULE XXXV

                                          GIFTS\47\
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         35.1a      1. (a)(1) No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate
                shall knowingly accept a gift except as provided in this
                rule.
                    (2)(A)\48\ A Member, officer, or employee may accept a
                gift (other than cash or cash equivalent) which the Member,
                officer, or employee reasonably and in good faith believes
                to have a value of less than $50, and a cumulative value
                from one source during a calendar year of less than $100. No
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                the $100 annual limit. No formal recordkeeping is required
                by this paragraph, but a Member, officer, or employee shall
                make a good faith effort to comply with this paragraph.
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                    (B) A Member, officer, or employee may not knowingly
                accept a gift from a registered lobbyist, an agent of a
                foreign principal, or a private entity that retains or
                employs a registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign
                principal, except as provided in subparagraphs (c) and (d).
         35.1b      (b)(1) For the purpose of this rule, the term ``gift''
                means any gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment,
                hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having
                monetary value. The term includes gifts of services,
                training, transportation, lodging, and meals, whether
                provided in kind, by purchase of a ticket, payment in
                advance, or reimbursement after the expense has been
                incurred.
                    (2)(A) A gift to a family member of a Member, officer,
                or employee, or a gift to any other individual based on that
                individual's relationship with the Member, officer, or
                employee, shall be considered a gift to the Member, officer,
                or employee if it is given with the knowledge and
                acquiescence of the Member, officer, or employee and the
                Member, officer, or employee has reason to believe the gift
                was given because of the official position of the Member,
                officer, or employee.
                    (B) If food or refreshment is provided at the same time
                and place to both a Member, officer, or employee and the
                spouse or dependent thereof, only the food or refreshment
                provided to the Member, officer, or employee shall be
                treated as a gift for purposes of this rule.
         35.1c      (c) The restrictions in subparagraph (a) shall not apply
                to the following:
                            (1)(A)\49\ Anything for which the Member,
                        officer, or employee pays the market value, or does
                        not use and promptly returns to the donor.
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                            (B) The market value of a ticket to an
                        entertainment or sporting event shall be the face
                        value of the ticket or, in the case of a ticket
                        without a face value, the value of the ticket with
                        the highest face value for the event, except that if
                        a ticket holder can establish in advance of the
                        event to the Select Committee on Ethics that the
                        ticket at issue is equivalent to another ticket with
                        a face value, then the

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                        market value shall be set at the face value of the
                        equivalent ticket. In establishing equivalency, the
                        ticket holder shall provide written and
                        independently verifiable information related to the
                        primary features of the ticket, including, at a
                        minimum, the seat location, access to parking,
                        availability of food and refreshments, and access to
                        venue areas not open to the public. The Select
                        Committee on Ethics may make a determination of
                        equivalency only if such information is provided in
                        advance of the event.
                            (C)(i)\50\ Fair market value for a flight on an
                        aircraft described in item (ii) shall be the pro
                        rata share of the fair market value of the normal
                        and usual charter fare or rental charge for a
                        comparable plane of comparable size, as determined
                        by dividing such cost by the number of Members,
                        officers, or employees of Congress on the flight.
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                            (ii) A flight on an aircraft described in this
                        item is any flight on an aircraft that is not--
                                    (I) operated or paid for by an air
                                carrier or commercial operator certificated
                                by the Federal Aviation Administration and
                                required to be conducted under air carrier
                                safety rules; or
                                    (II) in the case of travel which is
                                abroad, an air carrier or commercial
                                operator certificated by an appropriate
                                foreign civil aviation authority and the
                                flight is required to be conducted under air
                                carrier safety rules.
                            (iii) This subclause shall not apply to an
                        aircraft owned or leased by a governmental entity or
                        by a Member of Congress or a Member's immediate
                        family member (including an aircraft owned by an
                        entity that is not a public corporation in which the
                        Member or Member's immediate family member has an
                        ownership interest), provided that the Member does
                        not use the aircraft any more than the Member's or
                        immediate family member's proportionate share of
                        ownership allows.
                            (2) A contribution, as defined in the Federal
                        Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et
                        seq.)\51\ that is lawfully made under that Act, or
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                        zation described in section 527(e) of the Internal
                        Revenue Code of 1986.
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                30101 et seq.
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                            (3) A gift from a relative as described in
                        section 109(16) of Title I of the Ethics Reform Act
                        of 1989 (5 U.S.C. App. 6).\52\
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                            (4)(A) Anything, including personal
                        hospitality,\53\ provided by an individual on the
                        basis of a personal friendship unless the Member,
                        officer, or employee has reason to believe that,
                        under the circumstances, the gift was provided
                        because of the official position of the Member,
                        officer, or employee and not because of the personal
                        friendship.
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                            (B) In determining whether a gift is provided on
                        the basis of personal friendship, the Member,
                        officer, or employee shall consider the
                        circumstances under which the gift was offered, such
                        as:
                                    (i) The history of the relationship
                                between the individual giving the gift and
                                the recipient of the gift, including any
                                previous exchange of gifts between such
                                individuals.
                                    (ii) Whether to the actual knowledge of
                                the Member, officer, or employee the
                                individual who gave the gift personally paid
                                for the gift or sought a tax deduction or
                                business reimbursement for the gift.
                                    (iii) Whether to the actual knowledge of
                                the Member, officer, or employee the
                                individual who gave the gift also at the
                                same time gave the same or similar gifts to
                                other Members, officers, or employees.
                            (5) A contribution or other payment to a legal
                        expense fund established for the benefit of a
                        Member, officer, or employee, that is otherwise
                        lawfully made, subject to the disclosure
                        requirements of the Select Committee on Ethics,
                        except as provided in paragraph 3(c).
                            (6) Any gift from another Member, officer, or
                        employee of the Senate or the House of
                        Representatives.
                            (7) Food, refreshments, lodging, and other
                        benefits--
                                    (A) resulting from the outside business
                                or employment activities (or other outside
                                activities

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                                that are not connected to the duties of the
                                Member, officer, or employee as an
                                officeholder) of the Member, officer or
                                employee, or the spouse of the Member,
                                officer, or employee, if such benefits have
                                not been offered or enhanced because of the
                                official position of the Member, officer, or
                                employee and are customarily provided to
                                others in similar circumstances;
                                    (B) customarily provided by a
                                prospective employer in connection with bona
                                fide employment discussions; or
                                    (C) provided by a political organization
                                described in section 527(e) of the Internal
                                Revenue Code of 1986 in connection with a
                                fundraising or campaign event sponsored by
                                such an organization.
                            (8) Pension and other benefits resulting from
                        continued participation in an employee welfare and
                        benefits plan maintained by a former employer.
                            (9) Informational materials that are sent to the
                        office of the Member, officer, or employee in the
                        form of books, articles, periodicals, other written
                        materials, audiotapes, videotapes, or other forms of
                        communication.
                            (10) Awards or prizes which are given to
                        competitors in contests or events open to the
                        public, including random drawings.
                            (11) Honorary degrees (and associated travel,
                        food, refreshments, and entertainment) and other
                        bona fide, nonmonetary awards presented in
                        recognition of public service (and associated food,
                        refreshments, and entertainment provided in the
                        presentation of such degrees and awards).
                            (12) Donations of products from the State that
                        the Member represents that are intended primarily
                        for promotional purposes, such as display or free
                        distribution, and are of minimal value to any
                        individual recipient.
                            (13) Training (including food and refreshments
                        furnished to all attendees as an integral part of
                        the training) provided to a Member, officer, or
                        employee, if such training is in the interest of the
                        Senate.
                            (14) Bequests, inheritances, and other transfers
                        at death.

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                            (15) Any item, the receipt of which is
                        authorized by the Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act,
                        the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act, or
                        any other statute.
                            (16) Anything which is paid for by the Federal
                        Government, by a State or local government, or
                        secured by the Government under a Government
                        contract.
                            (17) A gift of personal hospitality (as defined
                        in section 109(14) of the Ethics in Government Act)
                        of an individual other than a registered lobbyist or
                        agent of a foreign principal.
                            (18) Free attendance at a widely attended event
                        permitted pursuant to subparagraph (d).
                            (19) Opportunities and benefits which are--
                                    (A) available to the public or to a
                                class consisting of all Federal employees,
                                whether or not restricted on the basis of
                                geographic consideration;
                                    (B) offered to members of a group or
                                class in which membership is unrelated to
                                congressional employment;
                                    (C) offered to members of an
                                organization, such as an employees'
                                association or congressional credit union,
                                in which membership is related to
                                congressional employment and similar
                                opportunities are available to large
                                segments of the public through organizations
                                of similar size;
                                    (D) offered to any group or class that
                                is not defined in a manner that specifically
                                discriminates among Government employees on
                                the basis of branch of Government or type of
                                responsibility, or on a basis that favors
                                those of higher rank or rate of pay;
                                    (E) in the form of loans from banks and
                                other financial institutions on terms
                                generally available to the public; or
                                    (F) in the form of reduced membership or
                                other fees for participation in organization
                                activities offered to all Government
                                employees by professional organizations if
                                the only restrictions on membership relate
                                to professional qualifications.
                            (20) A plaque, trophy, or other item that is
                        substantially commemorative in nature and which is
                        intended solely for presentation.

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                            (21) Anything for which, in an unusual case, a
                        waiver is granted by the Select Committee on Ethics.
                            (22) Food or refreshments of a nominal value
                        offered other than as a part of a meal.
                            (23) An item of little intrinsic value such as a
                        greeting card, baseball cap, or a T-shirt.
                            (24)\54\ Subject to the restrictions in
                        subparagraph (a)(2)(A), free attendance at a
                        constituent event permitted pursuant to subparagraph
                        (g).
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         35.1d      (d)(1) A Member, officer, or employee may accept an
                offer of free attendance at a widely attended convention,
                conference, symposium, forum, panel discussion, dinner,
                viewing, reception, or similar event, provided by the
                sponsor of the event, if--
                            (A) the Member, officer, or employee
                        participates in the event as a speaker or a panel
                        participant, by presenting information related to
                        Congress or matters before Congress, or by
                        performing a ceremonial function appropriate to the
                        Member's, officer's, or employee's official
                        position; or
                            (B) attendance at the event is appropriate to
                        the performance of the official duties or
                        representative function of the Member, officer, or
                        employee.
                    (2) A Member, officer, or employee who attends an event
                described in clause (1) may accept a sponsor's unsolicited
                offer of free attendance at the event for an accompanying
                individual if others in attendance will generally be
                similarly accompanied or if such attendance is appropriate
                to assist in the representation of the Senate.
                    (3) A Member, officer, or employee, or the spouse or
                dependent thereof, may accept a sponsor's unsolicited offer
                of free attendance at a charity event, except that
                reimbursement for transportation and lodging may not be
                accepted in connection with an event that does not meet the
                standards provided in paragraph 2.
                    (4) For purposes of this paragraph, the term ``free
                attendance'' may include waiver of all or part of a
                conference or other fee, the provision of local
                transportation, or the provision of food, refreshments,
                entertainment, and instructional materials furnished to all
                attendees as an integral part of the event. The term does
                not include entertainment collateral to the event, nor does
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                refreshments taken other than in a group setting with all or
                substantially all other attendees.
                    (5)\55\ During the dates of the national party
                convention for the political party to which a Member
                belongs, a Member may not participate in an event honoring
                that Member, other than in his or her capacity as the
                party's presidential or vice presidential nominee or
                presumptive nominee, if such event is directly paid for by a
                registered lobbyist or a private entity that retains or
                employs a registered lobbyist.
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         35.1e      (e) No Member, officer, or employee may accept a gift
                the value of which exceeds $250 on the basis of the personal
                friendship exception in subparagraph (c)(4) unless the
                Select Committee on Ethics issues a written determination
                that such exception applies. No determination under this
                subparagraph is required for gifts given on the basis of the
                family relationship exception.
         35.1f      (f) When it is not practicable to return a tangible item
                because it is perishable, the item may, at the discretion of
                the recipient, be given to an appropriate charity or
                destroyed.
         35.1g      (g)(1)\56\ A Member, officer, or employee may accept an
                offer of free attendance in the Member's home State at a
                conference, symposium, forum, panel discussion, dinner
                event, site visit, viewing, reception, or similar event,
                provided by a sponsor of the event, if--
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                            (A) the cost of meals provided the Member,
                        officer, or employee is less than $50;
                            (B)(i) the event is sponsored by constituents
                        of, or a group that consists primarily of
                        constituents of, the Member (or the Member by whom
                        the officer or employee is employed); and
                            (ii) the event will be attended primarily by a
                        group of at least 5 constituents of the Member (or
                        the Member by whom the officer or employee is
                        employed) provided that a registered lobbyist shall
                        not attend the event; and
                            (C)(i) the Member, officer, or employee
                        participates in the event as a speaker or a panel
                        participant, by presenting information related to
                        Congress or matters before Congress, or by
                        performing a ceremonial function appropriate to the
                        Member's, officer's, or employee's official
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                            (ii) attendance at the event is appropriate to
                        the performance of the official duties or
                        representative function of the Member, officer, or
                        employee.
                    (2) A Member, officer, or employee who attends an event
                described in clause (1) may accept a sponsor's unsolicited
                offer of free attendance at the event for an accompanying
                individual if others in attendance will generally be
                similarly accompanied or if such attendance is appropriate
                to assist in the representation of the Senate.
                    (3) For purposes of this subparagraph, the term `free
                attendance' has the same meaning given such term in
                subparagraph (d).
         35.2a      2. (a)(1)\57\ A reimbursement (including payment in
                kind) to a Member, officer, or employee from an individual
                other than a registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign
                principal or a private entity that retains or employs 1 or
                more registered lobbyists or agents of a foreign principal
                for necessary transportation, lodging and related expenses
                for travel to a meeting, speaking engagement, factfinding
                trip or similar event in connection with the duties of the
                Member, officer, or employee as an officeholder shall be
                deemed to be a reimbursement to the Senate and not a gift
                prohibited by this rule, if the Member, officer, or employee
                complies with the requirements of this paragraph.
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                    (2)(A)\58\ Notwithstanding clause (1), a reimbursement
                (including payment in kind) to a Member, officer, or
                employee of the Senate from an individual, other than a
                registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal, that is
                a private entity that retains or employs 1 or more
                registered lobbyists or agents of a foreign principal shall
                be deemed to be a reimbursement to the Senate under clause
                (1) if--
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                            (i) the reimbursement is for necessary
                        transportation, lodging, and related expenses for
                        travel to a meeting, speaking engagement,
                        factfinding trip, or similar event described in
                        clause (1) in connection with the duties of the
                        Member, officer, or employee and the reimbursement
                        is provided only for attendance at or participation
                        for 1 day (exclusive of travel time and an overnight
                        stay) at an event described in clause (1); or
                            (ii) the reimbursement is for necessary
                        transportation, lodging, and related expenses for
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                        meeting, speaking engagement, factfinding trip, or
                        similar event described in clause (1) in connection
                        with the duties of the Member, officer, or employee
                        and the reimbursement is from an organization
                        designated under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
                        Revenue Code of 1986.
                    (B) When deciding whether to preapprove a trip under
                this clause, the Select Committee on Ethics shall make a
                determination consistent with regulations issued pursuant to
                section 544(b) of the Honest Leadership and Open Government
                Act of 2007. The committee through regulations to implement
                subclause (A)(i) may permit a longer stay when determined by
                the committee to be practically required to participate in
                the event, but in no event may the stay exceed 2 nights.
                    (3)\59\ For purposes of clauses (1) and (2), events, the
                activities of which are substantially recreational in
                nature, shall not be considered to be in connection with
                duties of a Member, officer, or employee as an officeholder.
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         35.2b      (b)\60\Before an employee may accept reimbursement
                pursuant to subparagraph (a), the employee shall receive
                advance written authorization from the Member or officer
                under whose direct supervision the employee works. Each
                advance authorization to accept reimbursement shall be
                signed by the Member or officer under whose direct
                supervision the employee works and shall include--
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                            (1) the name of the employee;
                            (2) the name of the person who will make the
                        reimbursement;
                            (3) the time, place, and purpose of the travel;
                        and
                            (4) a determination that the travel is in
                        connection with the duties of the employee as an
                        officeholder and would not create the appearance
                        that the employee is using public office for private
                        gain.
         35.2c      (c)\61\ Each Member, officer, or employee that receives
                reimbursement under this paragraph shall disclose the
                expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed, the authorization
                under subparagraph (b) (for an employee), and a copy of the
                certification in subparagraph (e)(1) to the Secretary of the
                Senate not later than 30 days after the travel is completed.
                Each disclosure made under this subparagraph of expenses
                reimbursed or to be reimbursed shall be signed

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                by the Member or officer (in the case of travel by that
                Member or officer) or by the Member or officer under whose
                direct supervision the employee works (in the case of travel
                by an employee) and shall include--
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                            (1) a good faith estimate of total
                        transportation expenses reimbursed or to be
                        reimbursed;
                            (2) a good faith estimate of total lodging
                        expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
                            (3) a good faith estimate of total meal expenses
                        reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
                            (4) a good faith estimate of the total of other
                        expenses reimbursed or to be reimbursed;
                            (5) a determination that all such expenses are
                        necessary transportation, lodging, and related
                        expenses as defined in this paragraph;
                            (6)\62\ a description of meetings and events
                        attended; and
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                            (7)\63\ in the case of a reimbursement to a
                        Member or officer, a determination that the travel
                        was in connection with the duties of the Member or
                        officer as an officeholder and would not create the
                        appearance that the Member or officer is using
                        public office for private gain.
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         35.2d      (d)(1)\64\ A Member, officer, or employee of the Senate
                may not accept a reimbursement (including payment in kind)
                for transportation, lodging, or related expenses under
                subparagraph (a) for a trip that was--
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                            (A) planned, organized, or arranged by or at the
                        request of a registered lobbyist or agent of a
                        foreign principal; or
                            (B)(i) for trips described under subparagraph
                        (a)(2)(A)(i) on which a registered lobbyist
                        accompanies the Member, officer, or employee on any
                        segment of the trip; or
                            (ii) for all other trips allowed under this
                        paragraph, on which a registered lobbyist
                        accompanies the Member, officer, or employee at any
                        point throughout the trip.
                    (2) The Select Committee on Ethics shall issue
                regulations identifying de minimis activities by registered
                lobbyists or foreign agents that would not violate this
                subparagraph.

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         35.2e      (e)\65\ A Member, officer, or employee shall, before
                accepting travel otherwise permissible under this paragraph
                from any source--
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                            (1) provide to the Select Committee on Ethics a
                        written certification from such source that--
                                    (A) the trip will not be financed in any
                                part by a registered lobbyist or agent of a
                                foreign principal;
                                    (B) the source either--
                                      (i) does not retain or employ
                                registered lobbyists or agents of a foreign
                                principal and is not itself a registered
                                lobbyist or agent of a foreign principal; or
                                      (ii) certifies that the trip meets the
                                requirements of subclause (i) or (ii) of
                                subparagraph (a)(2)(A);
                                    (C) the source will not accept from a
                                registered lobbyist or agent of a foreign
                                principal or a private entity that retains
                                or employs 1 or more registered lobbyists or
                                agents of a foreign principal, funds
                                earmarked directly or indirectly for the
                                purpose of financing the specific trip; and
                                    (D) the trip will not in any part be
                                planned, organized, requested, or arranged
                                by a registered lobbyist or agent of a
                                foreign principal and the traveler will not
                                be accompanied on the trip consistent with
                                the applicable requirements of subparagraph
                                (d)(1)(B) by a registered lobbyist or agent
                                of a foreign principal, except as permitted
                                by regulations issued under subparagraph
                                (d)(2); and
                            (2) after the Select Committee on Ethics has
                        promulgated regulations pursuant to section 544(b)
                        of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of
                        2007, obtain the prior approval of the committee for
                        such reimbursement.
         35.2f      (f)\66\ For the purposes of this paragraph, the term
                ``necessary transportation, lodging, and related
                expenses''--
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                            (1) includes reasonable expenses that are
                        necessary for travel for a period not exceeding 3
                        days exclusive of travel time within the United
                        States or 7 days exclusive of travel time outside of
                        the United States

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                        unless approved in advance by the Select Committee
                        on Ethics;
                            (2) is limited to reasonable expenditures for
                        transportation, lodging, conference fees and
                        materials, and food and refreshments, including
                        reimbursement for necessary transportation, whether
                        or not such transportation occurs within the periods
                        described in clause (1);
                            (3) does not include expenditures for
                        recreational activities, nor does it include
                        entertainment other than that provided to all
                        attendees as an integral part of the event, except
                        for activities or entertainment otherwise
                        permissible under this rule; and
                            (4) may include travel expenses incurred on
                        behalf of either the spouse or a child of the
                        Member, officer, or employee, subject to a
                        determination signed by the Member or officer (or in
                        the case of an employee, the Member or officer under
                        whose direct supervision the employee works) that
                        the attendance of the spouse or child is appropriate
                        to assist in the representation of the Senate.

         35.2g      (g) The Secretary of the Senate shall make all advance
                authorizations, certifications, and disclosures filed
                pursuant to this paragraph available for public inspection
                as soon as possible after they are received, but in no event
                prior to the completion of the relevant travel.
          35.3      3. A gift prohibited by paragraph 1(a) includes the
                following:
         35.3a

                            (a) Anything provided by a registered lobbyist
                        or an agent of a foreign principal to an entity that
                        is maintained or controlled by a Member, officer, or
                        employee.

         35.3b

                            (b) A charitable contribution (as defined in
                        section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986)
                        made by a registered lobbyist or an agent of a
                        foreign principal on the basis of a designation,
                        recommendation, or other specification of a Member,
                        officer, or employee (not including a mass mailing
                        or other solicitation directed to a broad category
                        of persons or entities), other than a charitable
                        contribution permitted by paragraph 4.

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         35.3c
                            (c) A contribution or other payment by a
                        registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign
                        principal to a legal expense fund established for
                        the benefit of a Member, officer, or employee.

         35.3d
                            (d) A financial contribution or expenditure made
                        by a registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign
                        principal relating to a conference, retreat, or
                        similar event, sponsored by or affiliated with an
                        official congressional organization, for or on
                        behalf of Members, officers, or employees.
         35.4a      4. (a) A charitable contribution (as defined in section
                170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) made by a
                registered lobbyist or an agent of a foreign principal in
                lieu of an honorarium to a Member, officer, or employee
                shall not be considered a gift under this rule if it is
                reported as provided in subparagraph (b).
         35.4b      (b) A Member, officer, or employee who designates or
                recommends a contribution to a charitable organization in
                lieu of honoraria described in subparagraph (a) shall report
                within 30 days after such designation or recommendation to
                the Secretary of the Senate--
                            (1) the name and address of the registered
                        lobbyist who is making the contribution in lieu of
                        honoraria;
                            (2) the date and amount of the contribution; and
                            (3) the name and address of the charitable
                        organization designated or recommended by the
                        Member.
                The Secretary of the Senate shall make public information
                received pursuant to this subparagraph as soon as possible
                after it is received.
          35.5      5. For purposes of this rule--

         35.5a
                            (a) the term ``registered lobbyist'' means a
                        lobbyist registered under the Federal Regulation of
                        Lobbying Act or any successor statute; and

         35.5b
                            (b) the term ``agent of a foreign principal''
                        means an agent of a foreign principal registered
                        under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
          35.6      6. All the provisions of this rule shall be interpreted
                and enforced solely by the Select Committee on Ethics. The
                Select Committee on Ethics is authorized to issue guidance
                on any matter contained in this rule.

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            36                         RULE XXXVI\67\
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                    \67\Previous provisions of rule XXXVI were repealed by
                S. Res. 512, 97-2, Dec. 14, 1982, effective Jan. 1, 1983.
                New rule XXXVI language established by S. Res. 192, 102-1,
                Oct. 31, 1991, effective Aug. 14, 1991.
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                                    OUTSIDE EARNED INCOME

                    For purposes of this rule, the provisions of section 501
                of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.
                Sec. 501) shall be deemed to be a rule of the Senate as it
                pertains to Members, officers, and employees of the Senate.

            37                           RULE XXXVII

                                    CONFLICT OF INTEREST

          37.1      1. A Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall
                not receive any compensation, nor shall he permit any
                compensation to accrue to his beneficial interest from any
                source, the receipt or accrual of which would occur by
                virtue of influence improperly exerted from his position as
                a Member, officer, or employee.
          37.2      2. No Member, officer, or employee shall engage in any
                outside business or professional activity or employment for
                compensation which is inconsistent or in conflict with the
                conscientious performance of official duties.
          37.3      3. No officer or employee shall engage in any outside
                business or professional activity or employment for
                compensation unless he has reported in writing when such
                activity or employment commences and on May 15 of each year
                thereafter so long as such activity or employment continues,
                the nature of such activity or employment to his supervisor.
                The supervisor shall then, in the discharge of his duties,
                take such action as he considers necessary for the avoidance
                of conflict of interest or interference with duties to the
                Senate.
          37.4      4. No Member, officer, or employee shall knowingly use
                his official position to introduce or aid the progress or
                passage of legislation, a principal purpose of which is to
                further only his pecuniary interest, only the pecuniary
                interest of his immediate family, or only the pecuniary
                interest of a limited class of persons or enterprises, when
                he, or his immediate family, or enterprises controlled by
                them, are members of the affected class.

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         37.5a      5. (a)\68\ No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate
                compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum and
                employed for more than ninety days in a calendar year shall
                (1) affiliate with a firm, partnership, association, or
                corporation for the purpose of providing professional
                services for compensation; (2) permit that individual's name
                to be used by such a firm, partnership, association or
                corporation; or (3) practice a profession for compensation
                to any extent during regular office hours of the Senate
                office in which employed. For the purposes of this
                paragraph, ``professional services'' shall include but not
                be limited to those which involve a fiduciary relationship.
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         37.5b      (b) A Member or an officer or employee whose rate of
                basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the
                annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-15 of the
                General Schedule shall not--
                            (1) receive compensation for affiliating with or
                        being employed by a firm, partnership, association,
                        corporation, or other entity which provides
                        professional services involving a fiduciary
                        relationship;
                            (2) permit that Member's, officer's, or
                        employee's name to be used by any such firm,
                        partnership, association, corporation, or other
                        entity;
                            (3) receive compensation for practicing a
                        profession which involves a fiduciary relationship;
                        or
                            (4) receive compensation for teaching, without
                        the prior notification and approval of the
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         37.6a      6. (a)\70\ No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate
                compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum and
                employed for more than ninety days in a calendar year shall
                serve as an officer or member of the board of any publicly
                held or publicly regulated corporation, financial
                institution, or business entity. The preceding sentence
                shall not apply to service of a Member, officer, or employee
                as--
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                            (1) an officer or member of the board of an
                        organization which is exempt from taxation under
                        section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954,
                        if such service is performed without compensation;

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                            (2) an officer or member of the board of an
                        institution or organization which is principally
                        available to Members, officers, or employees of the
                        Senate, or their families, if such service is
                        performed without compensation; or
                            (3) a member of the board of a corporation,
                        institution, or other business entity, if (A) the
                        Member, officer, or employee had served continuously
                        as a member of the board thereof for at least two
                        years prior to his election or appointment as a
                        Member, officer, or employee of the Senate, (B) the
                        amount of time required to perform such service is
                        minimal, and (C) the Member, officer, or employee is
                        not a member of, or a member of the staff of any
                        Senate committee which has legislative jurisdiction
                        over any agency of the Government charged with
                        regulating the activities of the corporation,
                        institution, or other business entity.

         37.6b      (b) A Member or an officer or employee whose rate of
                basic pay is equal to or greater than 120 percent of the
                annual rate of basic pay in effect for grade GS-15 of the
                General Schedule shall not serve for compensation as an
                officer or member of the board of any association,
                corporation, or other entity.

          37.7      7. An employee on the staff of a committee who is
                compensated at a rate in excess of $25,000 per annum and
                employed for more than ninety days in a calendar year shall
                divest himself of any substantial holdings which may be
                directly affected by the actions of the committee for which
                he works, unless the Select Committee, after consultation
                with the employee's supervisor, grants permission in writing
                to retain such holdings or the employee makes other
                arrangements acceptable to the Select Committee and the
                employee's supervisor to avoid participation in committee
                actions where there is a conflict of interest, or the
                appearance thereof.
          37.8      8.\71\ If a Member, upon leaving office, becomes a
                registered lobbyist under the Federal Regulation of Lobbying
                Act of 1946 or any successor statute, or is employed or
                retained by such a registered lobbyist or an entity that
                employs or retains a registered lobbyist for the purpose of
                influencing legislation, he shall not lobby Members, offi

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                cers, or employees of the Senate for a period of two years
                after leaving office.
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         37.9a      9. (a) If an employee on the staff of a Member, upon
                leaving that position, becomes a registered lobbyist under
                the Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act of 1946 or any
                successor statute, or is employed or retained by such a
                registered lobbyist or an entity that employs or retains a
                registered lobbyist for the purpose of influencing
                legislation, such employee may not lobby the Member for whom
                he worked or that Member's staff for a period of one year
                after leaving that position.
         37.9b      (b) If an employee on the staff of a committee, upon
                leaving his position, becomes such a registered lobbyist or
                is employed or retained by such a registered lobbyist or an
                entity that employs or retains a registered lobbyist for the
                purpose of influencing legislation, such employee may not
                lobby the members of the committee for which he worked, or
                the staff of that committee, for a period of one year after
                leaving his position.
         37.9c      (c)\72\ If an officer of the Senate or an employee on
                the staff of a Member or on the staff of a committee whose
                rate of pay is equal to or greater than 75 percent of the
                rate of pay of a Member and employed at such rate for more
                than 60 days in a calendar year, upon leaving that position,
                becomes a registered lobbyist, or is employed or retained by
                such a registered lobbyist or an entity that employs or
                retains a registered lobbyist for the purpose of influencing
                legislation, such employee may not lobby any Member,
                officer, or employee of the Senate for a period of 1 year
                after leaving that position.
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                the office or employment to which such paragraph applies on
                or after Dec. 31, 2007. Sec. 531 of Pub. L. 110-81, Sep. 14,
                2007.
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         37.10      10. \73\Paragraphs 8 and 9 shall not apply to contacts
                with the staff of the Secretary of the Senate regarding
                compliance with the lobbying disclosure requirements of the
                Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.
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        37.11a      11. (a) If a Member's spouse or immediate family member
                is a registered lobbyist, or is employed or retained by such
                a registered lobbyist or an entity that hires or retains a
                registered lobbyist for the purpose of influencing
                legislation, the Member shall prohibit all staff employed or
                supervised by that Member (including staff in personal,
                committee, and leadership offices) from having any contact

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                with the Member's spouse or immediate family member that
                constitutes a lobbying contact as defined by section 3 of
                the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 by such person.
        37.11b      (b) Members and employees on the staff of a Member
                (including staff in personal, committee, and leadership
                offices) shall be prohibited from having any contact that
                constitutes a lobbying contact as defined by section 3 of
                the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 by any spouse of a
                Member who is a registered lobbyist, or is employed or
                retained by such a registered lobbyist.
        37.11c      (c) The prohibition in subparagraph (b) shall not apply
                to the spouse of a Member who was serving as a registered
                lobbyist at least 1 year prior to the most recent election
                of that Member to office or at least 1 year prior to his or
                her marriage to that Member.
        37.12a      12. (a)\74\ Except as provided by subparagraph (b), any
                employee of the Senate who is required to file a report
                pursuant to rule XXXIV shall refrain from participating
                personally and substantially as an employee of the Senate in
                any contact with any agency of the executive or judicial
                branch of Government with respect to non-legislative matters
                affecting any non-governmental person in which the employee
                has a significant financial interest.
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                    \74\Paragraphs 10 and 11 were renumbered as 11 and 12
                respectively and paragraph 10 was added by S. Res. 236, 101-
                2, Jan. 30, 1990. Paragraph renumbered by Pub. L. 110-81,
                Sep. 14, 2007.
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        37.12b      (b) Subparagraph (a) shall not apply if an employee
                first advises his supervising authority of his significant
                financial interest and obtains from his employing authority
                a written waiver stating that the participation of the
                employee is necessary. A copy of each such waiver shall be
                filed with the Select Committee.
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        37.13a

                            (a) ``employee of the Senate'' includes an
                        employee or individual described in paragraphs 2, 3,
                        and 4(c) of rule XLI;

        37.13b

                            (b) an individual who is an employee on the
                        staff of a subcommittee of a committee shall be
                        treated as an employee on the staff of such
                        committee; and

        37.13c

                            (c) the term ``lobbying'' means any oral or
                        written communication to influence the content or
                        disposition of any issue before Congress, including
                        any pending or future bill, resolution, treaty,
                        nomination, hearing, report, or investigation; but
                        does not include--

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                                    (1) a communication (i) made in the form
                                of testimony given before a committee or
                                office of the Congress, or (ii) submitted
                                for inclusion in the public record, public
                                docket, or public file of a hearing; or
                                    (2) a communication by an individual,
                                acting solely on his own behalf, for redress
                                of personal grievances, or to express his
                                personal opinion.
        37.14a      14.\76\(a) A Member shall not negotiate or have any
                arrangement concerning prospective private employment until
                after his or her successor has been elected, unless such
                Member files a signed statement with the Secretary of the
                Senate, for public disclosure, regarding such negotiations
                or arrangements not later than 3 business days after the
                commencement of such negotiation or arrangement, including
                the name of the private entity or entities involved in such
                negotiations or arrangements, and the date such negotiations
                or arrangements commenced.
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        37.14b      (b) A Member shall not negotiate or have any arrangement
                concerning prospective employment for a job involving
                lobbying activities as defined by the Lobbying Disclosure
                Act of 1995 until after his or her successor has been
                elected.
        37.14c      (c)(1) An employee of the Senate earning in excess of 75
                percent of the salary paid to a Senator shall notify the
                Select Committee on Ethics that he or she is negotiating or
                has any arrangement concerning prospective private
                employment.
                    (2) The notification under this subparagraph shall be
                made not later than 3 business days after the commencement
                of such negotiation or arrangement.
                    (3) An employee to whom this subparagraph applies
                shall--
                            (A) recuse himself or herself from--
                                    (i) any contact or communication with
                                the prospective employer on issues of
                                legislative interest to the prospective
                                employer; and
                                    (ii) any legislative matter in which
                                there is a conflict of interest or an
                                appearance of a conflict for that employee
                                under this subparagraph; and
                            (B) notify the Select Committee on Ethics of
                        such recusal.

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         37.15      15.\77\ For purposes of this rule--
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        37.15a

                            (a) a Senator or the Vice President is the
                        supervisor of his administrative, clerical, or other
                        assistants;

        37.15b

                            (b) a Senator who is the chairman of a committee
                        is the supervisor of the professional, clerical, or
                        other assistants to the committee except that
                        minority staff members shall be under the
                        supervision of the ranking minority Senator on the
                        committee;

        37.15c

                            (c) a Senator who is a chairman of a
                        subcommittee which has its own staff and financial
                        authorization is the supervisor of the professional,
                        clerical, or other assistants to the subcommittee
                        except that minority staff members shall be under
                        the supervision of the ranking minority Senator on
                        the subcommittee;

        37.15d

                            (d) the President pro tempore is the supervisor
                        of the Secretary of the Senate, Sergeant at Arms and
                        Doorkeeper, the Chaplain, the Legislative Counsel,
                        and the employees of the Office of the Legislative
                        Counsel;

        37.15e

                            (e) the Secretary of the Senate is the
                        supervisor of the employees of his office;

        37.15f

                            (f) the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper is the
                        supervisor of the employees of his office;

        37.15g

                            (g) the Majority and Minority Leaders and the
                        Majority and Minority Whips are the supervisors of
                        the research, clerical, or other assistants assigned
                        to their respective offices;

        37.15h

                            (h) the Majority Leader is the supervisor of the
                        Secretary for the Majority and the Secretary for the
                        Majority is the supervisor of the employees of his
                        office; and

        37.15i

                            (i) the Minority Leader is the supervisor of the
                        Secretary for the Minority and the Secretary for the
                        Minority is the supervisor of the employees of his
                        office.

            38

                                        RULE XXXVIII

                          PROHIBITION OF UNOFFICIAL OFFICE ACCOUNTS

         38.1a      1. (a)\78\ No Member may maintain or have maintained for
                his use an unofficial office account. The term ``unofficial
                office account'' means an account or repository into which
                funds are received for the purpose, at least in part, of de

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                fraying otherwise unreimbursed expenses allowable in
                connection with the operation of a Member's office. An
                unofficial office account does not include, and expenses
                incurred by a Member in connection with his official duties
                shall be defrayed only from--
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                was added by S. Res. 192, 102-1, Oct. 31, 1991. Effective
                date revised to May 1, 1992, by Pub. L. 102-229, Dec. 12,
                1991.
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                            (1) personal funds of the Member;
                            (2) official funds specifically appropriated for
                        that purpose;
                            (3) funds derived from a political committee (as
                        defined in section 301(d) of the Federal Election
                        Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431))\79\; and
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                            (4) funds received as reasonable reimbursements
                        for expenses incurred by a Member in connection with
                        personal services provided by the Member to the
                        organization making the reimbursement.
         38.1b      (b) Notwithstanding subparagraph (a), official expenses
                may be defrayed only as provided by subsections (d) and (i)
                of section 311 of the Legislative Appropriations Act, 1991
                (Public Law 101-520).\80\
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                Appropriations Act, 1991 (Pub. L. 101-520) was amended by
                Pub. L. 107-68, Nov. 12, 2001.
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         38.1c      (c)\81\ For purposes of reimbursement under this rule,
                fair market value of a flight on an aircraft shall be
                determined as provided in paragraph 1(c)(1)(C) of rule XXXV.
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          38.2

                    2. No contribution (as defined in section 301(e) of the
                Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431))\82\
                shall be converted to the personal use of any Member or any
                former Member. For the purposes of this rule ``personal
                use'' does not include reimbursement of expenses incurred by
                a Member in connection with his official duties.
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            39                           RULE XXXIX

                                       FOREIGN TRAVEL

         39.1a      1. (a) Unless authorized by the Senate (or by the
                President of the United States after an adjournment sine
                die), no funds from the United States Government (including
                foreign currencies made available under section 502(b) of
                the Mutual Security Act of 1954 (22 U.S.C. 1754(b)) shall be
                received for the purpose of travel outside the United States
                by any Member of the Senate whose term will expire at the
                end of a Congress after--

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                            (1) the date of the general election in which
                        his successor is elected; or
                            (2) in the case of a Member who is not a
                        candidate in such general election, the earlier of
                        the date of such general election or the adjournment
                        sine die of the second regular session of that
                        Congress.

         39.1b      (b)\83\ The travel restrictions provided by subparagraph
                (a) with respect to a Member of the Senate whose term will
                expire at the end of a Congress shall apply to travel by--
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                (b) was added by S. Res. 80, 100-1, Jan. 28, 1987.
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                            (1) any employee of the Member;
                            (2) any elected officer of the Senate whose
                        employment will terminate at the end of a Congress;
                        and
                            (3) any employee of a committee whose employment
                        will terminate at the end of a Congress.

          39.2      2. No Member, officer, or employee engaged in foreign
                travel may claim payment or accept funds from the United
                States Government (including foreign currencies made
                available under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of
                1954 (22 U.S.C. 1754(b)) for any expense for which the
                individual has received reimbursement from any other source;
                nor may such Member, officer, or employee receive
                reimbursement for the same expense more than once from the
                United States Government. No Member, officer, or employee
                shall use any funds furnished to him to defray ordinary and
                necessary expenses of foreign travel for any purpose other
                than the purpose or purposes for which such funds were
                furnished.
          39.3      3. A per diem allowance provided a Member, officer, or
                employee in connection with foreign travel shall be used
                solely for lodging, food, and related expenses and it is the
                responsibility of the Member, officer, or employee receiving
                such an allowance to return to the United States Government
                that portion of the allowance received which is not actually
                used for necessary lodging, food, and related expenses.

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            40                             RULE XL

                   FRANKING PRIVILEGE AND RADIO AND TELEVISION STUDIOS\84\
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                are parallel to certain provisions of rule XL relating to
                the franking privilege.
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          40.1      1. A Senator or an individual who is a candidate for
                nomination for election, or election, to the Senate may not
                use the frank for any mass mailing (as defined in section
                3210(a)(6)(E)\85\ of Title 39, United States Code) if such
                mass mailing is mailed at or delivered to any postal
                facility less than sixty days immediately before the date of
                any primary or general election (whether regular, special,
                or runoff) in which the Senator is a candidate for public
                office or the individual is a candidate for Senator, unless
                the candidacy of the Senator in such election is
                uncontested.\86\
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                    \85\Citation corrected by S. Res. 187, 101-1, Oct. 2,
                1989, pursuant to Pub. L. 97-69, Oct. 26, 1981.
                    \86\As amended by S. Res. 224, 103-2, June 21, 1994.

          40.2      2. A Senator shall use only official funds of the
                Senate, including his official Senate allowances, to
                purchase paper, to print, or to prepare any mass mailing
                material which is to be sent out under the frank.
         40.3a      3. (a) When a Senator disseminates information under the
                frank by a mass mailing (as defined in section 3210(a)(6)(E)
                of Title 39, United States Code), the Senator shall register
                quarterly\87\ with the Secretary of the Senate such mass
                mailings. Such registration shall be made by filing with the
                Secretary a copy of the matter mailed and providing, on a
                form supplied by the Secretary, a description of the group
                or groups of persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed.
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         40.3b      (b) The Secretary of the Senate shall promptly make
                available for public inspection and copying a copy of the
                mail matter registered, and a description of the group or
                groups of persons to whom the mass mailing was mailed.
          40.4      4. Nothing in this rule shall apply to any mailing under
                the frank which is (a) in direct response to inquiries or
                requests from persons to whom the matter is mailed; (b)
                addressed to colleagues in Congress or to government
                officials (whether Federal, State, or local); or (c)
                consists entirely of news releases to the communications
                media.
          40.5      5. The Senate computer facilities shall not be used (a)
                to store, maintain, or otherwise process any lists or
                categories of lists of names and addresses identifying the
                individuals included in such lists as campaign workers or
                con

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                tributors, as members of a political party, or by any other
                partisan political designation, (b) to produce computer
                printouts except as authorized by user guides approved by
                the Committee on Rules and Administration, or (c) to produce
                mailing labels for mass mailings, or computer tapes and
                discs, for use other than in service facilities maintained
                and operated by the Senate or under contract to the Senate.
                The Committee on Rules and Administration shall prescribe
                such regulations not inconsistent with the purposes of this
                paragraph as it determines necessary to carry out such
                purposes.
         40.6a      6. (a) The radio and television studios provided by the
                Senate or by the House of Representatives may not be used by
                a Senator or an individual who is a candidate for nomination
                for election, or election, to the Senate less than sixty
                days immediately before the date of any primary or general
                election (whether regular, special, or runoff) in which that
                Senator is a candidate for public office or that individual
                is a candidate for Senator, unless the candidacy of the
                Senator in such election is uncontested.\88\
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         40.6b      (b) This paragraph shall not apply if the facilities are
                to be used at the request of, and at the expense of, a
                licensed broadcast organization or an organization exempt
                from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
                Revenue Code of 1954.

            41                            RULE XLI

                            POLITICAL FUND ACTIVITY; DEFINITIONS

          41.1      1. No officer or employee of the Senate may receive,
                solicit, be a custodian of, or distribute any funds in
                connection with any campaign for the nomination for
                election, or the election, of any individual to be a Member
                of the Senate or to any other Federal office. This
                prohibition does not apply to three\89\ assistants to a
                Senator, at least one of whom is in Washington, District of
                Columbia, who have been designated by that Senator to
                perform any of the functions described in the first sentence
                of this paragraph and who are compensated at an annual rate
                in excess of $10,000 if such designation has been made in
                writing and filed with the Secretary of the Senate and if
                each such assistant files a financial statement in the form
                provided under rule XXXIV for each year during which he is
                des

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                ignated under this rule. The Majority Leader and the
                Minority Leader may each designate an employee of their
                respective leadership office staff as one of the 3 designees
                referred to in the second sentence.\90\\91\ The Secretary of
                the Senate shall make the designation available for public
                inspection.
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                    \89\As amended by S. Res. 258, 100-1, Oct. 1, 1987.
                    \90\Pursuant to S. Res. 236, 101-2, Jan. 30, 1990.
                    \91\Pursuant to Pub. L. 116-94, Title XVII, sec. 1701,
                the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader may each
                designate up to 2 employees of their respective leadership
                office staff as designees; however, the Standing Rules of
                the Senate were not amended.

          41.2      2. For purposes of the Senate Code of Official Conduct--
         41.2a

                            (a) an employee of the Senate includes any
                        employee whose salary is disbursed by the Secretary
                        of the Senate; and
         41.2b

                            (b) the compensation of an officer or employee
                        of the Senate who is a reemployed annuitant shall
                        include amounts received by such officer or employee
                        as an annuity, and such amounts shall be treated as
                        disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.
          41.3      3. Before approving the utilization by any committee of
                the Senate of the services of an officer or employee of the
                Government in accordance with paragraph 4\92\ of rule XXVII
                or with an authorization provided by Senate resolution, the
                Committee on Rules and Administration shall require such
                officer or employee to agree in writing to comply with the
                Senate Code of Official Conduct in the same manner and to
                the same extent as an employee of the Senate. Any such
                officer or employee shall, for purposes of such Code, be
                treated as an employee of the Senate receiving compensation
                disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate in an amount equal
                to the amount of compensation he is receiving as an officer
                or employee of the Government.
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                    \92\Reference corrected by S. Res. 192, 102-1, Oct. 31,
                1991.

          41.4      4. No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall
                utilize the full-time services of an individual for more
                than ninety days in a calendar year in the conduct of
                official duties of any committee or office of the Senate
                (including a Member's office) unless such individual--
         41.4a

                            (a) is an officer or employee of the Senate,
         41.4b

                            (b) is an officer or employee of the Government
                        (other than the Senate), or
         41.4c

                            (c) agrees in writing to comply with the Senate
                        Code of Official Conduct in the same manner and to
                        the same extent as an employee of the Senate.

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                Any individual to whom subparagraph (c) applies shall, for
                purposes of such Code, be treated as an employee of the
                Senate receiving compensation disbursed by the Secretary of
                the Senate in an amount equal to the amount of compensation
                which such individual is receiving from any source for
                performing such services.

          41.5      5. In exceptional circumstances for good cause shown,
                the Select Committee on Ethics may waive the applicability
                of any provision of the Senate Code of Official Conduct to
                an employee hired on a per diem basis.
         41.6a      6. (a) The supervisor of an individual who performs
                services for any Member, committee, or office of the Senate
                for a period in excess of four weeks and who receives
                compensation therefor from any source other than the United
                States Government shall report to the Select Committee on
                Ethics with respect to the utilization of the services of
                such individual.
         41.6b      (b) A report under subparagraph (a) shall be made with
                respect to an individual--
                            (1) when such individual begins performing
                        services described in such subparagraph;
                            (2) at the close of each calendar quarter while
                        such individual is performing such services; and
                            (3) when such individual ceases to perform such
                        services. Each such report shall include the
                        identity of the source of the compensation received
                        by such individual and the amount or rate of
                        compensation paid by such source.

         41.6c      (c) No report shall be required under subparagraph (a)
                with respect to an individual who normally performs services
                for a Member, committee, or office for less than eight hours
                a week.
         41.6d      (d) For purposes of this paragraph, the supervisor of an
                individual shall be determined under paragraph 12 of rule
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                and S. Res. 299, 106-2, Apr. 27, 2000.

            42                            RULE XLII

                                    EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES

          42.1      1. No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall,
                with respect to employment by the Senate or any office
                thereof--

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         42.1a

                            (a) fail or refuse to hire an individual;
         42.1b

                            (b) discharge an individual; or
         42.1c

                            (c) otherwise discriminate against an individual
                        with respect to promotion, compensation, or terms,
                        conditions, or privileges of employment
                on the basis of such individual's race, color, religion,
                sex, national origin, age, or state of physical handicap.
          42.2      2.\94\ For purposes of this rule, the provisions of
                section 509(a) of the Americans with Disabilities Act of
                1990 shall be deemed to be a rule of the Senate as it
                pertains to Members, officers, and employees of the Senate.
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                    \94\Added by S. Res. 192, 102-1, Oct. 31, 1991,
                effective July 26, 1990. Americans with Disabilities Act of
                1990 was subsequently amended by Pub. L. 102-166, Nov. 21,
                1991.

            43                           RULE XLIII

                                REPRESENTATION BY MEMBERS\95\
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                1992.
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          43.1      1. In responding to petitions for assistance, a Member
                of the Senate, acting directly or through employees, has the
                right to assist petitioners before executive and independent
                government officials and agencies.
          43.2      2. At the request of a petitioner, a Member of the
                Senate, or a Senate employee, may communicate with an
                executive or independent government official or agency on
                any matter to--
         43.2a

                            (a) request information or a status report;
         43.2b

                            (b) urge prompt consideration;
         43.2c

                            (c) arrange for interviews or appointments;
         43.2d

                            (d) express judgments;
         43.2e

                            (e) call for reconsideration of an
                        administrative response which the Member believes is
                        not reasonably supported by statutes, regulations or
                        considerations of equity or public policy; or
         43.2f

                            (f) perform any other service of a similar
                        nature consistent with the provisions of this rule.
          43.3      3. The decision to provide assistance to petitioners may
                not be made on the basis of contributions or services, or
                promises of contributions or services, to the Member's
                political campaigns or to other organizations in which the
                Member has a political, personal, or financial interest.

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          43.4      4. A Member shall make a reasonable effort to assure
                that representations made in the Member's name by any Senate
                employee are accurate and conform to the Member's
                instructions and to this rule.
          43.5      5. Nothing in this rule shall be construed to limit the
                authority of Members, and Senate employees, to perform
                legislative, including committee, responsibilities.
          43.6      6.\96\ No Member, with the intent to influence solely on
                the basis of partisan political affiliation an employment
                decision or employment practice of any private entity,
                shall--
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         43.6a

                            (a) take or withhold, or offer or threaten to
                        take or withhold, an official act; or

         43.6b

                            (b) influence, or offer or threaten to influence
                        the official act of another.

            44                          RULE XLIV\97\
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                     CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING AND RELATED ITEMS

         44.1a      1. (a) It shall not be in order to vote on a motion to
                proceed to consider a bill or joint resolution reported by
                any committee unless the chairman of the committee of
                jurisdiction or the Majority Leader or his or her designee
                certifies--
                    (1) that each congressionally directed spending item,
                limited tax benefit, and limited tariff benefit, if any, in
                the bill or joint resolution, or in the committee report
                accompanying the bill or joint resolution, has been
                identified through lists, charts, or other similar means
                including the name of each Senator who submitted a request
                to the committee for each item so identified; and
                    (2) that the information in clause (1) has been
                available on a publicly accessible congressional website in
                a searchable format at least 48 hours before such vote.
         44.1b      (b) If a point of order is sustained under this
                paragraph, the motion to proceed shall be suspended until
                the sponsor of the motion or his or her designee has
                requested resumption and compliance with this paragraph has
                been achieved.
         44.2a      2. (a) It shall not be in order to vote on a motion to
                proceed to consider a Senate bill or joint resolution not
                reported by committee unless the chairman of the committee
                of jurisdiction or the Majority Leader or his or her
                designee certifies--

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                            (1) that each congressionally directed spending
                        item, limited tax benefit, and limited tariff
                        benefit, if any, in the bill or joint resolution,
                        has been identified through lists, charts, or other
                        similar means, including the name of each Senator
                        who submitted a request to the sponsor of the bill
                        or joint resolution for each item so identified; and
                            (2) that the information in clause (1) has been
                        available on a publicly accessible congressional
                        website in a searchable format at least 48 hours
                        before such vote.
         44.2b      (b) If a point of order is sustained under this
                paragraph, the motion to proceed shall be suspended until
                the sponsor of the motion or his or her designee has
                requested resumption and compliance with this paragraph has
                been achieved.
         44.3a      3. (a) It shall not be in order to vote on the adoption
                of a report of a committee of conference unless the chairman
                of the committee of jurisdiction or the Majority Leader or
                his or her designee certifies--
                            (1) that each congressionally directed spending
                        item, limited tax benefit, and limited tariff
                        benefit, if any, in the conference report, or in the
                        joint statement of managers accompanying the
                        conference report, has been identified through
                        lists, charts, or other means, including the name of
                        each Senator who submitted a request to the
                        committee of jurisdiction for each item so
                        identified; and
                            (2) that the information in clause (1) has been
                        available on a publicly accessible congressional
                        website at least 48 hours before such vote.
         44.3b      (b) If a point of order is sustained under this
                paragraph, then the conference report shall be set aside.
         44.4a      4. (a) If during consideration of a bill or joint
                resolution, a Senator proposes an amendment containing a
                congressionally directed spending item, limited tax benefit,
                or limited tariff benefit which was not included in the bill
                or joint resolution as placed on the calendar or as reported
                by any committee, in a committee report on such bill or
                joint resolution, or a committee report of the Senate on a
                companion measure, then as soon as practicable, the Senator
                shall ensure that a list of such items (and the name of any
                Senator who submitted a request to the Senator for each
                respective item included in the list) is printed in the
                Congressional Record.

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         44.4b      (b) If a committee reports a bill or joint resolution
                that includes congressionally directed spending items,
                limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits in the bill
                or joint resolution, or in the committee report accompanying
                the bill or joint resolution, the committee shall as soon as
                practicable identify on a publicly accessible congressional
                website each such item through lists, charts, or other
                similar means, including the name of each Senator who
                submitted a request to the committee for each item so
                identified. Availability on the Internet of a committee
                report that contains the information described in this
                subparagraph shall satisfy the requirements of this
                subparagraph.
         44.4c      (c) To the extent technically feasible, information made
                available on publicly accessible congressional websites
                under paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be provided in a searchable
                format.
          44.5      5. For the purpose of this rule--

         44.5a

                            (a) the term ``congressionally directed spending
                        item'' means a provision or report language included
                        primarily at the request of a Senator providing,
                        authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of
                        discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or
                        other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan
                        guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other
                        expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a
                        specific State, locality or Congressional district,
                        other than through a statutory or administrative
                        formula-driven or competitive award process;

         44.5b

                            (b) the term ``limited tax benefit'' means--
                                    (1) any revenue provision that--
                                      (A) provides a Federal tax deduction,
                                credit, exclusion, or preference to a
                                particular beneficiary or limited group of
                                beneficiaries under the Internal Revenue
                                Code of 1986; and
                                      (B) contains eligibility criteria that
                                are not uniform in application with respect
                                to potential beneficiaries of such
                                provision;
         44.5c

                            (c) the term ``limited tariff benefit'' means a
                        provision modifying the Harmonized Tariff Schedule
                        of the United States in a manner that benefits 10 or
                        fewer entities; and

         44.5d

                            (d) except as used in subparagraph 8(e), the
                        term ``item'' when not preceded by ``congressionally
                        directed spending'' means any provision that is a
                        congression

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                        ally directed spending item, a limited tax benefit,
                        or a limited tariff benefit.
         44.6a      6. (a) A Senator who requests a congressionally directed
                spending item, a limited tax benefit, or a limited tariff
                benefit in any bill or joint resolution (or an accompanying
                report) or in any conference report (or an accompanying
                joint statement of managers) shall provide a written
                statement to the chairman and ranking member of the
                committee of jurisdiction, including--
                            (1) the name of the Senator;
                            (2) in the case of a congressionally directed
                        spending item, the name and location of the intended
                        recipient or, if there is no specifically intended
                        recipient, the intended location of the activity;
                            (3) in the case of a limited tax or tariff
                        benefit, identification of the individual or
                        entities reasonably anticipated to benefit, to the
                        extent known to the Senator;
                            (4) the purpose of such congressionally directed
                        spending item or limited tax or tariff benefit; and
                            (5) a certification that neither the Senator nor
                        the Senator's immediate family has a pecuniary
                        interest in the item, consistent with the
                        requirements of paragraph 9.
         44.6b      (b) With respect to each item included in a Senate bill
                or joint resolution (or accompanying report) reported by
                committee or considered by the Senate, or included in a
                conference report (or joint statement of managers
                accompanying the conference report) considered by the
                Senate, each committee of jurisdiction shall make available
                for public inspection on the Internet the certifications
                under subparagraph (a)(5) as soon as practicable.
          44.7      7. In the case of a bill, joint resolution, or
                conference report that contains congressionally directed
                spending items in any classified portion of a report
                accompanying the measure, the committee of jurisdiction
                shall, to the greatest extent practicable, consistent with
                the need to protect national security (including
                intelligence sources and methods), include on the list
                required by paragraph 1, 2, or 3 as the case may be, a
                general program description in unclassified language,
                funding level, and the name of the sponsor of that
                congressionally directed spending item.
         44.8a      8. (a) A Senator may raise a point of order against one
                or more provisions of a conference report if they constitute
                new directed spending provisions. The Presiding Officer

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                may sustain the point of order as to some or all of the
                provisions against which the Senator raised the point of
                order.
         44.8b      (b) If the Presiding Officer sustains the point of order
                as to any of the provisions against which the Senator raised
                the point of order, then those provisions against which the
                Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be
                stricken. After all other points of order under this
                paragraph have been disposed of--
                            (1) the Senate shall proceed to consider the
                        question of whether the Senate should recede from
                        its amendment to the House bill, or its disagreement
                        to the amendment of the House, and concur with a
                        further amendment, which further amendment shall
                        consist of only that portion of the conference
                        report that has not been stricken; and
                            (2) the question in clause (1) shall be decided
                        under the same debate limitation as the conference
                        report and no further amendment shall be in order.

         44.8c      (c) Any Senator may move to waive any or all points of
                order under this paragraph with respect to the pending
                conference report by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of
                the Members, duly chosen and sworn. All motions to waive
                under this paragraph shall be debatable collectively for not
                to exceed 1 hour equally divided between the Majority Leader
                and the Minority Leader or their designees. A motion to
                waive all points of order under this paragraph shall not be
                amendable.
         44.8d      (d) All appeals from rulings of the Chair under this
                paragraph shall be debatable collectively for not to exceed
                1 hour, equally divided between the Majority and the
                Minority Leader or their designees. An affirmative vote of
                three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and
                sworn, shall be required in the Senate to sustain an appeal
                of the ruling of the Chair under this paragraph.
         44.8e      (e) The term ``new directed spending provision'' as used
                in this paragraph means any item that consists of a specific
                provision containing a specific level of funding for any
                specific account, specific program, specific project, or
                specific activity, when no specific funding was provided for
                such specific account, specific program, specific project,
                or specific activity in the measure originally committed to
                the conferees by either House.

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          44.9      9. No Member, officer, or employee of the Senate shall
                knowingly use his official position to introduce, request,
                or otherwise aid the progress or passage of congressionally
                directed spending items, limited tax benefits, or limited
                tariff benefits a principal purpose of which is to further
                only his pecuniary interest, only the pecuniary interest of
                his immediate family, or only the pecuniary interest of a
                limited class of persons or enterprises, when he or his
                immediate family, or enterprises controlled by them, are
                members of the affected class.
         44.10      10. Any Senator may move to waive application of
                paragraph 1, 2, or 3 with respect to a measure by an
                affirmative vote of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen
                and sworn. A motion to waive under this paragraph with
                respect to a measure shall be debatable for not to exceed 1
                hour equally divided between the Majority Leader and the
                Minority Leader or their designees. With respect to points
                of order raised under paragraphs 1, 2, or 3, only one appeal
                from a ruling of the Chair shall be in order, and debate on
                such an appeal from a ruling of the Chair on such point of
                order shall be limited to one hour.
         44.11      11. Any Senator may move to waive all points of order
                under this rule with respect to the pending measure or
                motion by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of the
                Members, duly chosen and sworn. All motions to waive all
                points of order with respect to a measure or motion as
                provided by this paragraph shall be debatable collectively
                for not to exceed 1 hour equally divided between the
                Majority Leader and the Minority Leader or their designees.
                A motion to waive all points of order with respect to a
                measure or motion as provided by this paragraph shall not be
                amendable.
         44.12      12. Paragraph 1, 2, or 3 of this rule may be waived by
                joint agreement of the Majority Leader and the Minority
                Leader of the Senate upon their certification that such
                waiver is necessary as a result of a significant disruption
                to Senate facilities or to the availability of the Internet.

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                                                                     Senate
                                                                     Manual
                                                                     Section

                                 CHAMBER AND FLOOR PROCEDURE

                Senate procedure for the 117th Congress...................60
                Emergency authority relating to Senate
                  adjournments and recesses...............................61
                Authorizing regulations relating to the use of
                  official equipment......................................62
                Votes shall be cast from assigned desk....................63
                Authorizing a Senator to bring a young son or
                  daughter of the Senator onto the floor of the
                  Senate during votes.....................................64
                To permit an individual with a disability with
                  access to the Senate floor to bring necessary
                  supporting aids and services............................65
                Flowers in the Senate Chamber.............................66
                Reading of Washington's Farewell Address..................67
                Designation of the ``Daniel Webster Desk''................68
                Designation of the Jefferson Davis Desk...................69
                Designation of the Henry Clay Desk........................70
                Television and radio broadcast of Senate Chamber
                  proceedings.............................................71
                Reading of conference reports.............................72
                Public disclosure of notice of intent to object
                  to a measure or matter..................................73
                Permitting the waiving of the reading of an
                  amendment...............................................74
                To provide for expedited Senate consideration of
                  certain nominations subject to advice and
                  consent.................................................75

                            COMMITTEES AND OTHER SENATE ENTITIES

                Committee on Appropriations authority.....................76
                Consultants for the Committee on Appropriations
                                                                          77
                Select Committee on Ethics................................78
                Select Committee on Ethics--additional
                  responsibility..........................................79
                Select Committee on Ethics--Chairman and Vice-
                  chairman legislative assistants clerk-hire
                  allowance...............................................80
                Authorizing the Select Committee on Ethics to
                  provide training assistance to its
                  professional staff......................................81
                Select Committee on Intelligence..........................82
                Homeland security and intelligence oversight..............83
                Reorganization of Senate committee system.................84
                  Special Committee on Aging..............................85
                  Committee on Indian Affairs.............................86
                  Committee assignments; chairmanships..................86.1
                  Scheduling of committee meetings......................86.2
                  Continuing review of the committee system.............86.3

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                Acceptance of gifts by the Committee on Rules
                  and Administration......................................87
                Authorizing suit by Senate committees.....................88
                National Security Working Group...........................89

                                          EMPLOYEES

                Special Deputies..........................................90
                Office of Deputy President pro tempore....................91
                Managing Political Fund Activity..........................92
                Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus...........................93
                Senate Chief Counsel for Employment Emeritus..............94
                Senate Historian Emeritus.................................95
                Senate Curator Emeritus...................................96
                Senate Security Director Emeritus.........................97
                Persons not full-time employees of the Senate.............98
                Senate pages..............................................99
                Closing the office of a Senator or Senate leader
                  who dies or resigns....................................100
                Pay for certain displaced Senate officers and
                  employees..............................................101
                Pay of clerical and other assistants as affected
                  by termination of service of appointed
                  Senators...............................................102
                Leave without pay status for certain Senate
                  employees performing service in the uniformed
                  services...............................................103
                Loyalty checks on Senate employees.......................104
                Equal employment opportunities...........................105
                Mandating anti-harassment training for Senators
                  and officers, employees, and interns of, and
                  detailees to the Senate................................106
                SFC Sean Cooley and SPC Christopher Horton
                  congressional gold star family fellowship
                  program................................................107
                McCain-Mansfield fellowship program......................108
                Senate youth program.....................................109
                Senior citizen internship program........................110
                Senate employee child care center........................111

                                          EXPENSES

                Transportation costs and travel expenses
                  incurred by Members and employees of the
                  Senate when engaged in authorized foreign
                  travel.................................................112
                Documentation required for reimbursements out of
                  Senators' official office expense accounts.............113
                Restrictions on certain expenses payable or
                  reimbursable from a Senator's official office
                  expense account........................................114
                Debt collection..........................................115
                Tort claims procedures...................................116
                Reimbursement of witness expenses........................117
                Authorizing the Senate to participate in
                  government transit programs............................118

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                                           ETHICS

                Relative to contributions for costs of civil,
                  criminal, or other legal investigations of
                  Members, officers, or employees of the Senate
                                                                         119
                Clarifying rules regarding acceptance of pro
                  bono legal services by Senators........................120
                Standards of conduct for Members of the Senate
                  and officers and employees of the Senate...............121

                                         CEREMONIAL

                Seal of the Senate.......................................122
                Official Senate flag.....................................123
                Seal of the President pro tempore........................124
                Marble busts of Vice Presidents..........................125
                Award of service pins or emblems.........................126
                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.................127
                Designating the extension to the Dirksen Senate
                  office building as the ``Philip A. Hart Senate
                  Office Building''......................................128
                Prohibition on the removal of art and historic
                  objects from the Senate wing of the Capitol
                  and Senate office buildings for personal use
                                                                         129
                Commission on Art and Antiquities of the United
                  States Senate..........................................130
                Interparliamentary activities and reception of
                  certain foreign officials..............................131
                Authorizing the display of the Senate Leadership
                  Portrait Collection in the Senate lobby................132
                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.........................133

                                           RECORDS

                Public access to Senate records at the National
                  Archives...............................................134
                Printing in the Congressional Record.....................135
                Printing of the Executive Journal........................136
                Printing of memorial tributes to deceased former
                  Members of the Senate..................................137
                Office of Senate Security................................138

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            60             SENATE PROCEDURE FOR THE 117TH CONGRESS

                    Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXV of
                the Standing Rules of the Senate, or any other provision of
                the Standing Rules or Standing Orders of the Senate--
                            (1) the committees of the Senate, including
                        joint committees and special committees, for the
                        117th Congress shall be composed equally of members
                        of both parties, to be appointed at a later time by
                        the two Leaders;
                            (2) the budgets and office space for such
                        committees, and all other subgroups, shall likewise
                        be equal, with up to an additional 10 percent to be
                        allocated for administrative expenses to be
                        determined by the Committee on Rules and
                        Administration, with the total administrative
                        expenses allocation for all committees not to exceed
                        historic levels; and
                            (3) the Chairman of a full committee may
                        discharge a subcommittee of any Legislative or
                        Executive Calendar item which has not been reported
                        because of a tie vote and place it on the full
                        committee's agenda.
                    Sec. 2. The committee ratios under section 1 shall
                remain in effect for the remainder of the 117th Congress,
                except that if at any time during the 117th Congress either
                party attains a majority of the whole number of Senators,
                then each committee ratio shall be adjusted to reflect the
                ratio of the parties in the Senate, and the provisions of
                this resolution shall have no further effect, except that
                the members who were first appointed by the two Leaders to
                such committees in the 117th Congress, pursuant to the
                authority in this resolution, shall no longer be members of
                the committees, and the committee chairmanships shall be
                held by the party which has attained a majority of the whole
                number of Senators.

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                    Sec. 3. Pursuant to the provisions and exceptions
                described in sections 1 and 2, the following additional
                Standing Orders of the Senate shall be in effect for the
                117th Congress:
                            (1) If a committee has not reported out a
                        measure or matter because of a tie vote, then--
                                    (A) the Chairman of the committee shall
                                transmit a notice of a tie vote to the
                                Secretary of the Senate and such notice
                                shall be printed in the Record; and
                                    (B) after such notice of a tie vote has
                                been transmitted, the Majority Leader or the
                                Minority Leader may, only after consultation
                                with the Chairman and Ranking Member of the
                                committee, make a motion to discharge such
                                measure or matter, and time for debate on
                                such motion shall be limited to 4 hours, to
                                be equally divided between the two Leaders
                                or their designees, with no other motions,
                                points of order, or amendments in order:
                                Provided, That following the use or yielding
                                back of time, the Senate vote on the motion
                                to discharge, without any intervening
                                action, motion, or debate, and if agreed to,
                                the measure or matter be placed immediately
                                on the appropriate Calendar.
                            (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of rule XXII
                        of the Standing Rules of the Senate, to ensure that
                        any cloture motion shall be offered for the purpose
                        of bringing to a close debate, in no case shall it
                        be in order for any cloture motion to be presented
                        on an amendable item during its first 12 hours of
                        Senate debate: Provided, That all other provisions
                        of rule XXII remain in status quo.
                    Sec. 4. It is the sense of the Senate that both Leaders
                shall seek to attain an equal balance of the interests of
                the two parties when scheduling and debating legislative and
                executive business generally, and in keeping with the
                present Senate precedents, a motion to proceed to any
                Legislative or Executive Calendar item shall continue to be
                considered the prerogative of the Majority Leader, although
                the Standing Rules of the Senate do not prohibit the right
                of the Republican Leader, or any other Senator, to move to
                proceed to any item.

                                          [S. Res. 27, 117-1, Feb. 3, 2021.]

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            61    EMERGENCY AUTHORITY RELATING TO SENATE ADJOURNMENTS AND
                                          RECESSES

                    Resolved, That the presiding officer of the Senate may
                suspend any proceeding of the Senate, including a rollcall
                vote or a quorum call, and declare a recess or adjournment
                of the Senate subject to existing authorities or subject to
                the call of the Chair, within the limits of article I,
                section 5, clause 4, of the Constitution, whenever the
                presiding officer has been notified of an imminent threat.
                    Sec. 2. When the Senate is out of session, the majority
                and minority leaders, or their designees, may, acting
                jointly and within the limits of article I, section 5,
                clause 4, of the Constitution, modify any order for the time
                or place of the convening of the Senate when, in their
                opinion, such action is warranted by intervening
                circumstances.

                                         [S. Res. 296, 108-2, Feb. 3, 2004.]

            62    AUTHORIZING REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE USE OF OFFICIAL
                                          EQUIPMENT

                    Resolved, That (a) the Committee on Rules and
                Administration of the Senate may issue regulations to
                authorize a Senator or officer or employee of the Senate to
                use official equipment for purposes incidental to the
                conduct of their official duties.
                    (b) Any use under subsection (a) shall be subject to
                such terms and conditions as set forth in the regulations.

                                         [S. Res. 238, 108-1, Oct. 2, 2003.]

            63             VOTES SHALL BE CAST FROM ASSIGNED DESK

                    Resolved, That it is a standing order of the Senate that
                during yea and nay votes in the Senate, each Senator shall
                vote from the assigned desk of the Senator.

                                         [S. Res. 480, 98-2, Oct. 11, 1984.]

            64   AUTHORIZING A SENATOR TO BRING A YOUNG SON OR DAUGHTER OF
                    THE SENATOR ONTO THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE DURING VOTES

                    Resolved, Notwithstanding rule XXIII of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate, a Senator who has a son or daughter (as
                defined in section 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act
                of 1993 (29 U.S.C. 2611)) under 1 year of age may bring the
                son or daughter onto the floor of the Senate during votes.

                                        [S. Res. 463, 115-2, Apr. 18, 2018.]

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            65  TO PERMIT AN INDIVIDUAL WITH A DISABILITY WITH ACCESS TO THE
                SENATE FLOOR TO BRING NECESSARY SUPPORTING AIDS AND SERVICES

                    Resolved, That an individual with a disability who has
                or is granted the privilege of the Senate floor under rule
                XXIII of the Standing Rules of the Senate may bring
                necessary supporting aids and services (including service
                dogs, wheelchairs, and interpreters) on the Senate floor,
                unless the Senate Sergeant at Arms determines that the use
                of such supporting aids and services would place a
                significant difficulty or expense on the operations of the
                Senate in accordance with paragraph 2 of rule 4 of the Rules
                for Regulation of the Senate Wing of the United States
                Capitol.

                                        [S. Res. 110, 105-1, July 31, 1997.]

            66                  FLOWERS IN THE SENATE CHAMBER

                    Resolved, That until further orders the Sergeant at Arms
                is instructed not to permit flowers to be brought into the
                Senate Chamber.

                [S. Jour. 261, 58-3, Feb. 24, 1905.]

                    Resolved, That notwithstanding the resolution of the
                Senate of February 24, 1905, upon the death of a sitting
                Senator, the majority leader and the minority leader may
                permit a display of flowers to be placed upon the desk of
                the deceased Senator on the day set aside for eulogies.

                                        [S. Res. 221, 98-1, Sept. 15, 1983.]

            67            READING OF WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS

                    Ordered, That, unless otherwise directed, on the twenty-
                second day of February in each year, or if that day shall be
                on Sunday, then on the day following, immediately after the
                reading of the Journal, Washington's Farewell Address shall
                be read to the Senate by a Senator to be designated for the
                purpose by the Presiding Officer; and that thereafter the
                Senate will proceed with its ordinary business.

                                        [S. Jour. 103, 56-2, Jan. 24, 1901.]

            68           DESIGNATION OF THE ``DANIEL WEBSTER DESK''

                    Resolved, That during the Ninety-fourth Congress and
                each Congress thereafter, the desk located within the Senate
                Chamber and commonly referred to as the ``Daniel Webster
                Desk'' shall, at the request of the senior Senator from the
                State of New Hampshire, be assigned to such Senator for use
                in carrying out his or her Senatorial duties during that
                Senator's term of office.

                                         [S. Res. 469, 93-2, Dec. 19, 1974.]

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            69             DESIGNATION OF THE JEFFERSON DAVIS DESK

                    Resolved, That during the One Hundred Fourth Congress
                and each Congress thereafter, the desk located within the
                Senate Chamber and used by Senator Jefferson Davis shall, at
                the request of the senior Senator from the State of
                Mississippi, be assigned to such Senator, for use in
                carrying out his or her senatorial duties during that
                Senator's term of office.

                [S. Res. 161, 104-1, Aug. 8, 1995.]

            70               DESIGNATION OF THE HENRY CLAY DESK

                    Resolved, That (a) during the One Hundred Sixth Congress
                and each Congress thereafter, the desk located within the
                Senate Chamber and used by Senator Henry Clay shall, at the
                request of the senior Senator from the State of Kentucky, be
                assigned to that Senator for use in carrying out his or her
                senatorial duties during that Senator's term of office.
                    (b) If, in any Congress, the senior Senator from the
                State of Kentucky is serving as party leader, the desk
                referred to in subsection (a) may be assigned to the junior
                Senator from Kentucky upon the request of the senior
                Senator.

                [S. Res. 89, 106-1, Apr. 28, 1999; S. Res. 630, 109-2, Dec.
                                                                   8, 2006.]

            71  TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCAST OF SENATE CHAMBER PROCEEDINGS

                    Resolved, That (a) the Senate hereby authorizes and
                directs that there be both television and radio broadcast
                coverage (together with videotape and audio recordings) of
                proceedings in the Senate Chamber.
                    (b) Such broadcast coverage shall be--
                            (1) provided in accordance with provisions of
                        this resolution;
                            (2) provided continuously, except for any time
                        when the Senate is conducting a quorum call, or when
                        a meeting with closed doors is ordered; and
                            (3) provided subject to the provisions
                        pertaining to the Senate gallery contained in the
                        following Standing Rules of the Senate: rule XIX,
                        paragraphs 6 and 7; rule XXV, paragraph 1(n); and
                        rule XXXIII, paragraph 2.
                    Sec. 2. The radio and television broadcast of Senate
                proceedings shall be supervised and operated by the Senate.
                    Sec. 3. The television broadcast of Senate proceedings
                shall follow the Presiding Officer and Senators who are
                speaking, clerks, and the chaplain except during rollcall

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                votes when the television cameras shall show the entire
                Chamber.
                    Sec. 4. (a) The broadcast coverage by radio and
                television of the proceedings of the Senate shall be
                implemented as provided in this section.
                    (b) The Architect of the Capitol, in consultation with
                the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, shall--
                            (1) construct necessary broadcasting facilities
                        for both radio and television (including a control
                        room and the modification of Senate sound and
                        lighting fixtures);
                            (2) employ necessary expert consultants; and
                            (3) acquire and install all necessary equipment
                        and facilities to (A) produce a broadcast-quality
                        ``live'' audio and color video signal of such
                        proceedings, and (B) provide an archive-quality
                        audio and color video tape recording of such
                        proceedings:
                Provided, That the Architect of the Capitol, in carrying out
                the duties specified in clauses (1) through (3) of this
                subsection, shall not enter into any contract for the
                purchase or installation of equipment, for employment of any
                consultant, or for the provision of training to any person,
                unless the same shall first have been approved by the
                Committee on Rules and Administration.
                    (c)(1)\1\ The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the
                Senate shall--
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                            (A) employ such staff as may be necessary,
                        working in conjunction with the Senate Recording and
                        Photographic Studios, to operate and maintain all
                        broadcast audio and color video equipment installed
                        pursuant to this resolution;
                            (B) make audio and video tape recordings, and
                        copies thereof as requested by the Secretary under
                        paragraph (2) of Senate proceedings; and
                            (C) retain for 30 session-days after the day any
                        Senate proceedings took place, such recordings
                        thereof, and as soon thereafter as possible,
                        transmit to the Secretary of the Senate copies of
                        such recordings.
                The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, in
                carrying out the duties specified in subparagraphs (A) and
                (B), shall comply with appropriate Senate procurement and
                other regulations.

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                    (2) The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to obtain
                from the Sergeant at Arms archival quality video recordings
                of Senate proceedings and, as soon thereafter as possible,
                transmit such recordings to the Librarian of Congress and to
                the Archivist of the United States.
                    Sec. 5. (a) Radio coverage of Senate proceedings shall--
                            (1) begin as soon as the necessary equipment has
                        been installed; and
                            (2) be provided continuously at all times when
                        the Senate is in session (or is meeting in Committee
                        of the Whole), except for any time when a meeting
                        with closed doors is ordered.
                    Sec. 6.\2\ (a) The use of any tape duplication of radio
                or television coverage of the proceedings of the Senate for
                political campaign purposes is strictly prohibited.
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                    (b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any tape
                duplication of radio or television coverage of the
                proceedings of the Senate furnished to any person or
                organization shall be made on the condition, agreed to in
                writing, that the tape duplication shall not be used for
                political campaign purposes.
                    (2) Any public or commercial news organization furnished
                a tape duplication described in paragraph (1) shall be
                subject to the provisions of paragraph (1) but shall not be
                required to enter into a written agreement.
                    Sec. 7. Any changes in the regulations made by this
                resolution shall be made only by Senate resolution. However,
                the Committee on Rules and Administration may adopt such
                procedures and such regulations, which do not contravene the
                regulations made by this resolution, as it deems necessary
                to assure the proper implementation of the purposes of this
                resolution.
                    Sec. 8. Such funds as may be necessary (but not in
                excess of $3,500,000) to carry out this resolution shall be
                expended from the contingent fund of the Senate.

                                        * * * * * * *

                    Sec. 14. Provided, that if the Senate authorizes the
                permanent televising of the Senate pursuant to section 15,
                that radio and television coverage of the Senate shall be
                made available on a ``live'' basis and free of charge to (1)
                any accredited member of the Senate Radio and Television
                Correspondents Gallery, (2) the coaxial cable system of the
                Architect of the Capitol, and (3) such other news gathering,

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                educational, or information distributing entity as may be
                authorized by the Committee on Rules and Administration to
                receive such broadcasts.
                    Sec. 15. Television coverage of the Senate shall cease
                at the close of business July 15, 1986, and television
                coverage of the Senate and the rules changes contained
                herein shall continue, if the Senate agrees to the question,
                which shall be put one hour after the Senate convenes on
                July 29, 1986, ``Shall radio and television coverage
                continue after this date, and shall the rules changes
                contained herein continue?''.\3\ There shall be twelve hours
                of debate on this question, to be equally divided and
                controlled in the usual form, at the end of which any
                Senator may propose as an alternative the question, ``Shall
                the test period continue for thirty days?''. On this
                question there shall be one hour of debate, equally divided
                and controlled in the usual form. If this question is
                decided in the affirmative, then thirty days hence, one hour
                after the Senate convenes, the Senate shall proceed to vote
                without intervening action on the question, ``Shall radio
                and television coverage continue after this date and shall
                the rules changes contained herein continue?''.
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                considered and decided in the affirmative by a vote of 78-
                21. See Daily Cong. Rec., 99th Cong., 2d sess., July 29,
                1986, pp. S9750-S9775.
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                    Sec. 16. Provided, that official noting of a Senator's
                absence from committees while the Senate is on television is
                prohibited.

                [S. Res. 28, 99-2, Feb. 27, 1986.]

                    Sec. 17. The Secretary of the Senate shall, subject to
                the approval of the Senate Committee on Rules and
                Administration, contract with the Secretary of Education to
                provide closed captioning of the Senate floor proceedings.
                The Senate authorizes the Secretary of Education to have
                access to the audio and video broadcast of the Senate floor
                proceedings for the purpose of captioning. Such funds as may
                be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section are
                authorized to be paid from the contingent fund of the
                Senate.

                [S. Res. 13, 101-1, June 21, 1989.]

                    Resolved, That, notwithstanding any other provision of
                S. Res. 28, agreed to February 27, 1986, television coverage
                of the Senate shall resume July 21, 1986 under the same
                basis as provided during the live test period under section

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                5 of S. Res. 28 unless the Senate votes pursuant to section
                15 of S. Res. 28 to end coverage.

                [S. Res. 444, 99-2, July 15, 1986.]

            72                  READING OF CONFERENCE REPORTS

                    Sec. 903. Beginning on the first day of the 107th
                Congress, the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall apply
                all of the precedents of the Senate under Rule XXVIII in
                effect at the conclusion of the 103d Congress. Further that
                there is now in effect a Standing order of the Senate that
                the reading of conference reports is no longer required, if
                the said conference report is available in the Senate.

                  [Pub. L. 106-554, Div. A, ch. 9, Sec. 903, Dec. 21, 2000.]

            73  PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF NOTICE OF INTENT TO OBJECT TO A MEASURE
                                          OR MATTER

                    Resolved
                    Sec. 1. Eliminating Secret Senate Holds.
                    (a) In General.--
                            (1) Covered Request.--This standing order shall
                        apply to a notice of intent to object to the
                        following covered requests:
                                    (A) A unanimous consent request to
                                proceed to a bill, resolution, joint
                                resolution, concurrent resolution,
                                conference report, or amendment between the
                                Houses.
                                    (B) A unanimous consent request to pass
                                a bill or joint resolution or adopt a
                                resolution, concurrent resolution,
                                conference report, or the disposition of an
                                amendment between the Houses.
                                    (C) A unanimous consent request for the
                                disposition of a nomination.
                            (2) Recognition of Notice of Intent.--The
                        majority and minority leaders of the Senate or their
                        designees shall recognize a notice of intent to
                        object to a covered request of a Senator who is a
                        member of their caucus if the Senator--
                                    (A) submits the notice of intent to
                                object in writing to the appropriate leader
                                and grants in the notice of intent to object
                                permission for the leader or designee to
                                object in the Senator's name; and
                                    (B) not later than 2 session days after
                                submitting the notice of intent to object to
                                the appropriate leader, submits a copy of
                                the notice of intent to object to the
                                Congressional Record and

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                                to the Legislative Clerk for inclusion in
                                the applicable calendar section described in
                                subsection (b).
                            (3) Form of Notice.--To be recognized by the
                        appropriate leader a Senator shall submit the
                        following notice of intent to object:
                                    ``I, Senator --------------, intend to
                                object to ------------, dated --------------
                                --. I will submit a copy of this notice to
                                the Legislative Clerk and the Congressional
                                Record within 2 session days and I give my
                                permission to the objecting Senator to
                                object in my name.''. The first blank shall
                                be filled with the name of the Senator, the
                                second blank shall be filled with the name
                                of the covered request, the name of the
                                measure or matter and, if applicable, the
                                calendar number, and the third blank shall
                                be filled with the date that the notice of
                                intent to object is submitted.
                            (4) Notices on the Senate Floor.--The
                        requirement to submit a notice of intent to object
                        to the Legislative Clerk and the Congressional
                        Record shall not apply in the event a Senator
                        objects on the floor of the Senate and states the
                        following:
                                    ``I object to ----------------, on
                                behalf of Senator ----------------.''
                    (b) Calendar.--
                            (1) Objection.--Upon receiving the submission
                        under subsection (a)(2)(B), the Legislative Clerk
                        shall add the information from the notice of intent
                        to object to the applicable Calendar section
                        entitled `Notices of Intent to Object to Proceeding'
                        created by Public Law 110-81. Each section shall
                        include the name of each Senator filing a notice
                        under subsection (a)(2)(B), the measure or matter
                        covered by the calendar to which the notice of
                        intent to object relates, and the date the notice of
                        intent to object was filed.
                            (2) Objection on Behalf.--In the case of an
                        objection made under subsection (a)(4), not later
                        than 2 session days after the objection is made on
                        the floor, the Legislative Clerk shall add the
                        information from such objection to the applicable
                        Calendar section entitled ``Notices of Intent to
                        Object to Proceeding'' created by Public Law 110-81.
                        Each section shall include the name of the Senator
                        on whose behalf the objection was made, the measure
                        or matter objected to, and the date the objection
                        was made on the floor.

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                    (c) Removal.--A Senator may have notice of intent to
                object relating to that Senator removed from a calendar to
                which it was added under subsection (b) by submitting to the
                Legislative Clerk the following notice:
                                    ``I, Senator ------------------, do not
                                object to ----------------, dated ----------
                                ------.'' The first blank shall be filled
                                with the name of the Senator, the second
                                blank shall be filled with the name of the
                                covered request, the name of the measure or
                                matter and, if applicable, the calendar
                                number, and the third blank shall be filled
                                with the date of the submission to the
                                Legislative Clerk under this subsection.
                    (d) Objecting on Behalf of a Member.--Except with
                respect to objections made under subsection (a)(4), if a
                Senator who has notified his or her leader of an intent to
                object to a covered request fails to submit a notice of
                intent to object under subsection (a)(2)(b) within 2 session
                days following an objection to a covered request by the
                leader or his or her designee on that Senator's behalf, the
                Legislative Clerk shall list the Senator who made the
                objection to the covered request in the applicable ``Notice
                of Intent to Object to Proceeding'' calendar section.

                [S. Res. 28, 112-1, Jan. 27, 2011.]

            74      PERMITTING THE WAIVING OF THE READING OF AN AMENDMENT

                    Resolved,
                    Sec. 1. Reading of Amendments.
                            (a) Standing Order.--This section shall be a
                        standing order of the Senate.
                            (b) Waiver.--The reading of an amendment may be
                        waived by a non-debatable motion if the amendment--
                                    (1) has been submitted at least 72 hours
                                before the motion; and
                                    (2) is available in printed or
                                electronic form in the Congressional Record.

                [S. Res. 29, 112-1, Jan. 27, 2011.]

            75    TO PROVIDE FOR EXPEDITED SENATE CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN
                          NOMINATIONS SUBJECT TO ADVICE AND CONSENT

                    Resolved,
                    Sec. 1. Procedure For Consideration.

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                    (a) Privileged Nominations; Information Requested--Upon
                receipt by the Senate of a nomination described in section
                2, the nomination shall--
                            (1) be placed on the Executive Calendar under
                        the heading `Privileged Nominations--Information
                        Requested'; and
                            (2) remain on the Executive Calendar under such
                        heading until the Executive Clerk receives a written
                        certification from the Chairman of the committee of
                        jurisdiction under subsection (b).
                    (b) Questionnaires--The Chairman of the committee of
                jurisdiction shall notify the Executive Clerk in writing
                when the appropriate biographical and financial
                questionnaires have been received from an individual
                nominated for a position described in section 2.
                    (c) Privileged Nominations; Information Received--Upon
                receipt of the certification under subsection (b), the
                nomination shall--
                            (1) be placed on the Executive Calendar under
                        the heading `Privileged Nomination--Information
                        Received' and remain on the Executive Calendar under
                        such heading for 10 session days; and
                            (2) after the expiration of the period referred
                        to in paragraph (1), be placed on the `Nominations'
                        section of the Executive Calendar.
                    (d) Referral to Committee of Jurisdiction--During the
                period when a nomination described in subsection (a) is
                listed under the `Privileged Nomination--Information
                Requested' section of the Executive Calendar described in
                section (a)(1) or the `Privileged Nomination--Information
                Received' section of the Executive Calendar described in
                section (c)(1)--
                            (1) any Senator may request on his or her own
                        behalf, or on the behalf of any identified Senator
                        that the nomination be referred to the appropriate
                        committee of jurisdiction; and
                            (2) if a Senator makes a request described in
                        paragraph (1), the nomination shall be referred to
                        the appropriate committee of jurisdiction.
                    Sec. 2. Nominations Covered.
                    The following nominations for the positions described
                (including total number of individuals to be appointed for
                the position) shall be considered under the provisions of
                this resolution:

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                            (1) The Chairman and the Members of the Advisory
                        Board for Cuba Broadcasting (9 Members including
                        Chairman).
                            (2) The Chairman and the Members of the
                        Corporation for National and Community Service (15
                        Members including Chairman).
                            (3) The Chairman and the Members of the Federal
                        Retirement Thrift Investment Boards (5 Members
                        including Chairman).
                            (4) The Members of the Internal Revenue Service
                        Oversight Board (7 Members).
                            (5) The Members of the Board of the Millennium
                        Challenge Corporation (4 Members).
                            (6) The Members of the National Council on the
                        Arts (18 Members).
                            (7) The Members of the National Council for the
                        Humanities (26 Members).
                            (8) The Members of the Board of Directors of the
                        Overseas Private Investment Corporation (8 Members).
                            (9) The Members of the Peace Corps National
                        Advisory Council (15 Members).
                            (10) The Chairman, Vice Chairman, and the
                        Members of the Board of Directors for the United
                        States Institute of Peace (12 Members including
                        Chairman and Vice Chairman).
                            (11) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (5
                        Members).
                            (12) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the National Consumer Cooperative Bank (3 Members).
                            (13) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the National Institute of Building Sciences (6
                        Members).
                            (14) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (5
                        Members).
                            (15) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority (3
                        Members).
                            (16) The Members of the Saint Lawrence Seaway
                        Development Corporation Advisory Board (5 Members).
                            (17) The Members of the Board of Trustees of the
                        Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in
                        National Environmental Policy Foundation (9
                        Members).

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                            (18) The Members the Board of Trustees of the
                        Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (2 Members).
                            (19) The Members of the Board of Trustees of the
                        Federal Old Age and Survivors Trust Fund and
                        Disability Insurance Trust Fund (2 Members).
                            (20) The Members of the Board of Trustees of the
                        Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund
                        (2 Members).
                            (21) The Members of the Social Security Advisory
                        Board (3 Members).
                            (22) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the African Development Foundation (7 Members).
                            (23) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the Inter American Foundation (9 Members).
                            (24) The Commissioners of the United States
                        Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy (7 Members).
                            (25) The Members of the Board of Trustees of the
                        Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in
                        Education Foundation (8 Members).
                            (26) The Members of the Board of Trustees of the
                        Harry Truman Scholarship Foundation (8 Members).
                            (27) The Members of the Board of Trustees of the
                        James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (6
                        Members).
                            (28) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the Legal Services Corporation (11 Members).
                            (29) The Members of the Foreign Claims
                        Settlement Commission (2 Members).
                            (30) The Members of the Board of Directors of
                        the State Justice Institute (11 Members).
                            (31) Chief Financial Officer, from the
                        following:
                                    (A) Department of Agriculture.
                                    (B) Department of Commerce.
                                    (C) Department of Defense.
                                    (D) Department of Education.
                                    (E) Department of Energy.
                                    (F) Department of Environmental
                                Protection Agency.
                                    (G) Department of Health and Human
                                Services.
                                    (H) Department of Homeland Security.
                                    (I) Department of Housing and Urban
                                Development.
                                    (J) Department of the Interior.
                                    (K) Department of Labor.

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                                    (L) National Aeronautics and Space
                                Administration.
                                    (M) Department of State.
                                    (N) Department of Transportation.
                                    (O) Department of the Treasury.
                                    (P) Department of Veterans Affairs.
                            (32) Assistant Secretary for Financial
                        Management of the Air Force.
                            (33) Assistant Secretary for Financial
                        Management of the Army.
                            (34) Assistant Secretary for Financial
                        Management of Navy.
                            (35) Controller, Office of Federal Financial
                        Management, Office of Management and Budget.
                            (36) Assistant Secretaries or other officials
                        whose primary responsibility is legislative affairs
                        from the following:
                                    (A) Department of Agriculture.
                                    (B) Department of Energy.
                                    (C) Department of Defense.
                                    (D) Department of Housing and Urban
                                Development.
                                    (E) Department of Commerce.
                                    (F) Department of Treasury.
                                    (G) Department of State.
                                    (H) Department of Health and Human
                                Services.
                                    (I) United States Agency for
                                International Development.
                                    (J) Department of Education.
                                    (K) Department of Labor.
                                    (L) Department of Justice.
                                    (M) Department of Veterans Affairs.
                                    (N) Department of Transportation.
                            (37) Commissioner, Rehabilitative Services
                        Administration, Department of Education.
                            (38) Commissioner, Administration for Children,
                        Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human
                        Services.
                            (39) Commissioner, Administration for Native
                        Americans, Department of Health and Human Services.
                            (40) Federal Coordinator, Alaska Natural Gas
                        Transportation Projects.

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                            (41) Assistant Secretary for Administration,
                        Department of Commerce.\4\
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                that the 13 members of the Board of Directors of the
                National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers,
                ``shall be appointed by the President, by and with the
                advice and consent of the Senate, in accordance with the
                procedures established under Senate Resolution 116 of the
                112th Congress.''
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                    Sec. 3. Executive Calendar.
                    The Secretary of the Senate shall create the appropriate
                sections on the Executive Calendar to reflect and effectuate
                the requirements of this resolution.
                    Sec. 4. Committee Justification for New Executive
                Positions.
                    The report accompanying each bill or joint resolution of
                a public character reported by any committee shall contain
                an evaluation and justification made by such committee for
                the establishment in the measure being reported of any new
                position appointed by the President within an existing or
                new Federal entity.
                    Sec. 5. Effective Date.
                    This resolution shall take effect 60 days after the date
                of adoption of this resolution.

                [S. Res. 116, 112-1, Jun. 29, 2011.]

            76              COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORITY

                    Resolved, That for the purpose of obtaining and laying
                factual data and information before the Senate Committee on
                Appropriations, or any subcommittee thereof, for its
                consideration in the discharge of its functions, the
                chairman or acting chairman of said committee is hereby
                authorized and directed, within the limit of funds made
                available by resolutions of the Senate, to appoint and
                employ such experts as he may deem necessary to obtain such
                data and information, and such experts, upon the written
                authority of the chairman or acting chairman, shall have the
                right to examine the books, documents, papers, reports, or
                other records of any department, agency, or establishment of
                the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and
                elsewhere; be it further
                    Resolved, That the said committee through its chairman
                is hereby authorized, within the limit of funds made
                available by resolutions of the Senate, to appoint
                additional clerical help and assistants.

                 [S. Res. 193, 78-1, Oct. 14, 1943; S. Res. 281, 96-2, Mar.
                                                                  11, 1980.]

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            77         CONSULTANTS FOR THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

                    Resolved, That within the limit of funds appropriated
                for expenses of inquiries and investigations for the
                Committee on Appropriations, the committee may expend such
                sums as it deems appropriate and necessary for the
                procurement of the services of individual consultants or
                organizations. Such services in the case of individuals or
                organizations may be procured by contract as independent
                contractors, or in the case of individuals by employment at
                daily rates of compensation not in excess of the per diem
                equivalent of the highest gross rate of compensation which
                may be paid to a regular employee of the committee. Such
                contracts may be made in the same manner and subject to the
                same conditions with respect to advertising as required of
                other standing committees of the Senate under section
                202(i)(2) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, as
                amended.

                [S. Res. 140, 94-1, May 14, 1975.]

            78                   SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS

                    Resolved, That (a) there is hereby established a
                permanent select committee of the Senate to be known as the
                Select Committee on Ethics (referred to hereinafter as the
                ``Select Committee'') consisting of six Members of the
                Senate, of whom three shall be selected from members of the
                majority party and three shall be selected from members of
                the minority party. Members thereof shall be appointed by
                the Senate in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1
                of rule XXIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate at the
                beginning of each Congress. The Select Committee shall
                select a chairman or a vice chairman from among its members.
                For purposes of paragraph 4\5\ of rule XXV of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate, service of a Senator as a member or
                chairman of the Select Committee shall not be taken into
                account.
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                    (b) Vacancies in the membership of the Select Committee
                shall not affect the authority of the remaining members to
                execute the functions of the committee, and shall be filled
                in the same manner as original appointments thereto are
                made.
                    (c)(1) A majority of the members of the Select Committee
                shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business
                involving complaints and allegations of misconduct, includ

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                ing the consideration of matters involving sworn complaints,
                unsworn allegations or information, resultant preliminary
                inquiries, initial reviews, investigations, hearings,
                recommendations or reports, and matters relating to S. Res.
                400, agreed to May 19, 1976.
                    (2) Three members shall constitute a quorum for the
                transaction of the routine business of the Select Committee
                not covered by the first paragraph of this subparagraph,
                including requests for opinions and interpretations
                concerning the Code of Official Conduct or any other statute
                or regulation under the jurisdiction of the Select
                Committee, if one member of the quorum is a member of the
                majority party and one member of the quorum is a member of
                the minority party. During the transaction of routine
                business any member of the Select Committee constituting the
                quorum shall have the right to postpone further discussion
                of a pending matter until such time as a majority of the
                members of the Select Committee are present.
                    (3) The Select Committee may fix a lesser number as a
                quorum for the purpose of taking sworn testimony.
                    (d) (Repealed by S. Res. 271, 96-1, Oct. 31, 1979.)
                    (e)(1) A member of the Select Committee shall be
                ineligible to participate in any initial review or
                investigation relating to his own conduct, the conduct of
                any officer or employee he supervises, or the conduct of any
                employee of any officer he supervises, or relating to any
                complaint filed by him, and the determinations and
                recommendations of the Select Committee with respect
                thereto. For purposes of this subparagraph, a Member of the
                Select Committee and an officer of the Senate shall be
                deemed to supervise any officer or employee consistent with
                the provision of paragraph 11 of rule XXXVII\6\ of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate.
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                of the adoption of S. Res. 274, 96-1, Nov. 14, 1979; further
                changed from ``paragraph 11 of rule XLV'' as a result of the
                adoption of S. Res. 389, 96-2, Mar. 25, 1980.
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                    (2) A member of the Select Committee may, at his
                discretion, disqualify himself from participating in any
                initial review or investigation pending before the Select
                Committee and the determinations and recommendations of the
                Select Committee with respect thereto. Notice of such
                disqualification shall be given in writing to the President
                of the Senate.

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                    (3) Whenever any member of the Select Committee is
                ineligible under paragraph (1) to participate in any initial
                review or investigation or disqualifies himself under
                paragraph (2) from participating in any initial review or
                investigation, another Member of the Senate shall, subject
                to the provisions of subsection (d), be appointed to serve
                as a member of the Select Committee solely for purposes of
                such initial review or investigation and the determinations
                and recommendations of the Select Committee with respect
                thereto. Any Member of the Senate appointed for such
                purposes shall be of the same party as the Member who is
                ineligible or disqualifies himself.
                    Sec. 2. (a) It shall be the duty of the Select Committee
                to--
                            (1) receive complaints and investigate
                        allegations of improper conduct which may reflect
                        upon the Senate, violations of law, violations of
                        the Senate Code of Official Conduct, and violations
                        of rules and regulations of the Senate, relating to
                        the conduct of individuals in the performance of
                        their duties as Members of the Senate, or as
                        officers or employees of the Senate, and to make
                        appropriate findings of fact and conclusions with
                        respect thereto;
                            (2) recommend to the Senate by report or
                        resolution by a majority vote of the full committee
                        disciplinary action (including, but not limited to,
                        in the case of a Member: censure, expulsion, or
                        recommendation to the appropriate party conference
                        regarding such Member's seniority or positions of
                        responsibility; and, in the case of an officer or
                        employee: suspension or dismissal) to be taken with
                        respect to such violations which the Select
                        Committee shall determine, after according to the
                        individuals concerned due notice and opportunity for
                        hearing, to have occurred;
                            (3) recommend to the Senate, by report or
                        resolution, such additional rules or regulations as
                        the Select Committee shall determine to be necessary
                        or desirable to insure proper standards of conduct
                        by Members of the Senate, and by officers or
                        employees of the Senate, in the performance of their
                        duties and the discharge of their responsibilities;
                        and
                            (4) report violations by a majority vote of the
                        full committee of any law to the proper Federal and
                        State authorities.

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                    (b)(1) Each sworn complaint filed with the Select
                Committee shall be in writing, shall be in such form as the
                Select Committee may prescribe by regulation, and shall be
                under oath.
                    (2) For purposes of this section, ``sworn complaint''
                means a statement of facts within the personal knowledge of
                the complainant alleging a violation of law, the Senate Code
                of Official Conduct, or any other rule or regulation of the
                Senate relating to the conduct of individuals in the
                performance of their duties as Members, officers, or
                employees of the Senate.
                    (3) Any person who knowingly and willfully swears
                falsely to a sworn complaint does so under penalty of
                perjury, and the Select Committee may refer any such case to
                the Attorney General for prosecution.
                    (4) For the purposes of this section, ``investigation''
                is a proceeding undertaken by the Select Committee after a
                finding, on the basis of an initial review, that there is
                substantial credible evidence which provides substantial
                cause for the Select Committee to conclude that a violation
                within the jurisdiction of the Select Committee has
                occurred.
                    (c)(1) No investigation of conduct of a Member or
                officer of the Senate, and no report, resolution, or
                recommendation relating thereto, may be made unless approved
                by the affirmative recorded vote of not less than four
                members of the Select Committee.
                    (2) No other resolution, report, recommendation,
                interpretative ruling, or advisory opinion may be made
                without an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of
                the Select Committee voting.
                    (d)(1) When the Select Committee receives a sworn
                complaint against a Member or officer of the Senate, it
                shall promptly conduct an initial review of that complaint.
                The initial review shall be of duration and scope necessary
                to determine whether there is substantial credible evidence
                which provides substantial cause for the Select Committee to
                conclude that a violation within the jurisdiction of the
                Select Committee has occurred.
                    (2) If as a result of an initial review under paragraph
                (1), the Select Committee determines by a recorded vote that
                there is not such substantial credible evidence, the Select
                Committee shall report such determination to the complainant
                and to the party charged, together with an explanation of
                the basis of such determination.

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                    (3) If as a result of an initial review under paragraph
                (1), the Select Committee determines that a violation is
                inadvertent, technical, or otherwise of a de minimis nature,
                the Select Committee may attempt to correct or prevent such
                a violation by informal methods.
                    (4) If as the result of an initial review under
                paragraph (1), the Select Committee determines that there is
                such substantial credible evidence but that the violation,
                if proven, is neither of a de minimis nature nor
                sufficiently serious to justify any of the penalties
                expressly referred to in subsection (a)(2), the Select
                Committee may propose a remedy it deems appropriate. If the
                matter is thereby resolved, a summary of the Select
                Committee's conclusions and the remedy proposed shall be
                filed as a public record with the Secretary of the Senate
                and a notice of such filing shall be printed in the
                Congressional Record.
                    (5) If as the result of an initial review under
                paragraph (1), the Select Committee determines that there is
                such substantial credible evidence, the Select Committee
                shall promptly conduct an investigation if (A) the
                violation, if proven, would be sufficiently serious, in the
                judgment of the Select Committee, to warrant imposition of
                one or more of the penalties expressly referred to in
                subsection (a)(2), or (B) the violation, if proven, is less
                serious, but was not resolved pursuant to paragraph (4)
                above. Upon the conclusion of such investigation, the Select
                Committee shall report to the Senate, as soon as
                practicable, the results of such investigation together with
                its recommendations (if any) pursuant to subsection (a)(2).
                    (6) Upon the conclusion of any other investigation
                respecting the conduct of a Member or officer undertaken by
                the Select Committee, the Select Committee shall report to
                the Senate, as soon as practicable, the results of such
                investigation together with its recommendations (if any)
                pursuant to subsection (a)(2).
                    (e) When the Select Committee receives a sworn complaint
                against an employee of the Senate, it shall consider the
                complaint according to procedures it deems appropriate. If
                the Select Committee determines that the complaint is
                without substantial merit, it shall notify the complainant
                and the accused of its determination, together with an
                explanation of the basis of such determination.
                    (f) The Select Committee may, in its discretion, employ
                hearing examiners to hear testimony and make findings

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                of fact and/or recommendations to the Select Committee
                concerning the disposition of complaints.
                    (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section,
                no initial review or investigation shall be made of any
                alleged violation of any law, the Senate Code of Official
                Conduct, rule, or regulation which was not in effect at the
                time the alleged violation occurred. No provision of the
                Senate Code of Official Conduct shall apply to or require
                disclosure of any act, relationship, or transaction which
                occurred prior to the effective date of the applicable
                provision of the Code. The Select Committee may conduct an
                initial review or investigation of any alleged violation of
                a rule or law which was in effect prior to the enactment of
                the Senate Code of Official Conduct if the alleged violation
                occurred while such rule or law was in effect and the
                violation was not a matter resolved on the merits by the
                predecessor Select Committee.
                    (h) The Select Committee shall adopt written rules
                setting forth procedures to be used in conducting
                investigations of complaints.
                    (i) The Select Committee from time to time shall
                transmit to the Senate its recommendation as to any
                legislative measures which it may consider to be necessary
                for the effective discharge of its duties.
                    Sec. 3. (a) The Select Committee is authorized to (1)
                make such expenditures; (2) hold such hearings; (3) sit and
                act at such times and places during the sessions, recesses,
                and adjournment periods of the Senate; (4) require by
                subpoena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and
                the production of such correspondence, books, papers, and
                documents; (5) administer such oaths; (6) take such
                testimony orally or by deposition; (7) employ and fix the
                compensation of a staff director, a counsel, an assistant
                counsel, one or more investigators, one or more hearing
                examiners, and such technical, clerical, and other
                assistants and consultants as it deems advisable; and (8) to
                procure the temporary services (not in excess of one year)
                or intermittent services of individual consultants, or
                organizations thereof, by contract as independent
                contractors or, in the case of individuals, by employment at
                daily rates of compensation not in excess of the per diem
                equivalent of the highest rate of compensation which may be
                paid to a regular employee of the Select Committee.

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                    (b)(1) The Select Committee is authorized to retain and
                compensate counsel not employed by the Senate (or by any
                department or agency of the executive branch of the
                Government) whenever the Select Committee determines that
                the retention of outside counsel is necessary or appropriate
                for any action regarding any complaint or allegation, which,
                in the determination of the Select Committee is more
                appropriately conducted by counsel not employed by the
                Government of the United States as a regular employee.
                    (2) Any investigation conducted under section 2 shall be
                conducted by outside counsel as authorized in paragraph (1),
                unless the Select Committee determines not to use outside
                counsel.
                    (c) With the prior consent of the department or agency
                concerned, the Select Committee may (1) utilize the
                services, information, and facilities of any such department
                or agency of the Government, and (2) employ on a
                reimbursable basis or otherwise the services of such
                personnel of any such department or agency as it deems
                advisable. With the consent of any other committee of the
                Senate, or any subcommittee thereof, the Select Committee
                may utilize the facilities and the services of the staff of
                such other committee or subcommittee whenever the chairman
                of the Select Committee determines that such action is
                necessary and appropriate.
                    (d) Subpoenas may be issued (1) by the Select Committee
                or (2) by the chairman and vice chairman, acting jointly.
                Any such subpoena shall be signed by the chairman or the
                vice chairman and may be served by any person designated by
                such chairman or vice chairman. The chairman of the Select
                Committee or any member thereof may administer oaths to
                witnesses.
                    (e)(1) The Select Committee shall prescribe and publish
                such regulations as it feels are necessary to implement the
                Senate Code of Official Conduct.
                    (2) The Select Committee is authorized to issue
                interpretative rulings explaining and clarifying the
                application of any law, the Code of Official Conduct, or any
                rule or regulation of the Senate within its jurisdiction.
                    (3) The Select Committee shall render an advisory
                opinion, in writing within a reasonable time, in response to
                a written request by a Member or officer of the Senate or a
                candidate for nomination for election, or election to

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                the Senate, concerning the application of any law, the
                Senate Code of Official Conduct, or any rule or regulation
                of the Senate within its jurisdiction to a specific factual
                situation pertinent to the conduct or proposed conduct of
                the person seeking the advisory opinion.
                    (4) The Select Committee may in its discretion render an
                advisory opinion in writing within a reasonable time in
                response to a written request by any employee of the Senate
                concerning the application of any law, the Senate Code of
                Official Conduct, or any rule or regulation of the Senate
                within its jurisdiction to a specific factual situation
                pertinent to the conduct or proposed conduct of the person
                seeking the advisory opinion.
                    (5) Notwithstanding any provision of the Senate Code of
                Official Conduct or any rule or regulation of the Senate,
                any person who relies upon any provision or finding of an
                advisory opinion in accordance with the provisions of
                paragraphs (3) and (4) and who acts in good faith in
                accordance with the provisions and findings of such advisory
                opinion shall not, as a result of any such act, be subject
                to any sanction by the Senate.
                    (6) Any advisory opinion rendered by the Select
                Committee under paragraphs (3) and (4) may be relied upon by
                (A) any person involved in the specific transaction or
                activity with respect to which such advisory opinion is
                rendered: Provided, however, That the request for such
                advisory opinion included a complete and accurate statement
                of the specific factual situation; and (B) any person
                involved in any specific transaction or activity which is
                indistinguishable in all its material aspects from the
                transaction or activity with respect to which such advisory
                opinion is rendered.
                    (7) Any advisory opinion issued in response to a request
                under paragraph (3) or (4) shall be printed in the
                Congressional Record with appropriate deletions to assure
                the privacy of the individual concerned. The Select
                Committee shall to the extent practicable, before rendering
                an advisory opinion, provide any interested party with an
                opportunity to transmit written comments to the Select
                Committee with respect to the request for such advisory
                opinion. The advisory opinions issued by the Select
                Committee shall be compiled, indexed, reproduced, and made
                available on a periodic basis.

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                    (8) A brief description of a waiver granted under
                section 102(a)(2)(B) of Title I of Ethics in Government Act
                of 1978\7\ or paragraph 1 of rule XXXV\8\ of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate shall be made available upon request in
                the Select Committee office with appropriate deletions to
                assure the privacy of the individual concerned.
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                    \7\Changed from ``paragraph 2(c), of rule XLII'' as a
                result of the adoption of S. Res. 220, 96-1, Aug. 3, 1979.
                    \8\Changed from ``paragraph 1 of rule XLIII'' as a
                result of the adoption of S. Res. 389, 96-2, Mar. 25, 1980.
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                    Sec. 4. The expenses of the Select Committee under this
                resolution shall be paid from the contingent fund of the
                Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Select
                Committee.
                    Sec. 5. As used in this resolution, the term ``officer
                or employee of the Senate'' means--
                            (1) an elected officer of the Senate who is not
                        a Member of the Senate;
                            (2) an employee of the Senate, any committee or
                        subcommittee of the Senate, or any Member of the
                        Senate;
                            (3) the Legislative Counsel of the Senate or any
                        employee of his office;
                            (4) an Official Reporter of Debates of the
                        Senate and any person employed by the Official
                        Reporters of Debates of the Senate in connection
                        with the performance of their official duties;
                            (5) a member of the Capitol Police force whose
                        compensation is disbursed by the Secretary of the
                        Senate;
                            (6) an employee of the Vice President if such
                        employee's compensation is disbursed by the
                        Secretary of the Senate;
                            (7) an employee of a joint committee of the
                        Congress whose compensation is disbursed by the
                        Secretary of the Senate.

                [S. Res. 338, 88-2, July 24, 1964; S. Res. 368, 93-2, July
                25, 1974; S. Res. 4, 95-1, Feb. 4, 1977; S. Res. 110, 95-1,
                Apr. 1, 1977; S. Res. 230, 95-1, July 25, 1977; S. Res. 312,
                95-1, Nov. 1, 1977; S. Res. 271, 96-1, Oct. 31, 1979; S.
                Res. 78, 97-1, Feb. 24, 1981.]

            79      SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS--ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

                    Resolved, That the Senate assigns responsibility for
                administering the reporting requirements of Title I of the
                Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to the Select Committee on
                Ethics.

                [S. Res. 223, 96-1, Aug. 2, 1979.]

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            80     SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS--CHAIRMAN AND VICE-CHAIRMAN
                         LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANTS CLERK-HIRE ALLOWANCE

                    Resolved, That effective October 31, 1979, service of a
                Senator as the chairman or ranking minority member of the
                Select Committee on Ethics shall not be taken into account
                for purposes of applying section 111(b) of the Legislative
                Branch Appropriation Act, 1978.

                                         [S. Res. 290, 96-1, Nov. 27, 1979.]

            81     AUTHORIZING THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ETHICS TO PROVIDE
                        TRAINING ASSISTANCE TO ITS PROFESSIONAL STAFF

                    Resolved, That the Select Committee on Ethics
                (hereinafter referred to as the ``Select Committee'') is
                authorized, with the approval of the Committee on Rules and
                Administration, to provide assistance for members of its
                professional staff in obtaining specialized training,
                whenever the Select Committee determines that such training
                will aid it in the discharge of its responsibilities.
                    Sec. 2. (a) Assistance provided under authority of this
                resolution may be in the form of continuance of pay during
                periods of training or grants of funds to pay tuition, fees,
                or such other expenses of training, or both, as may be
                approved by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
                    (b) The Select Committee shall obtain from any employee
                receiving such assistance such agreement with respect to
                continued employment with the Select Committee as it may
                deem necessary to assure that it will receive the benefits
                of such employee's services upon completion of his training.
                    Sec. 3. The expenses of the Select Committee in
                providing assistance under authority of this resolution
                shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon
                vouchers approved by the chairman of the Select Committee.

                                         [S. Res. 425, 97-2, Aug. 12, 1982.]

            82                SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

                    Resolved, That it is the purpose of this resolution to
                establish a new select committee of the Senate, to be known
                as the Select Committee on Intelligence, to oversee and make
                continuing studies of the intelligence activities and
                programs of the United States Government, and to submit to
                the Senate appropriate proposals for legislation and report
                to the Senate concerning such intelligence activities and
                programs. In carrying out this purpose, the Select

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                Committee on Intelligence shall make every effort to assure
                that the appropriate departments and agencies of the United
                States provide informed and timely intelligence necessary
                for the executive and legislative branches to make sound
                decisions affecting the security and vital interests of the
                Nation. It is further the purpose of this resolution to
                provide vigilant legislative oversight over the intelligence
                activities of the United States to assure that such
                activities are in conformity with the Constitution and laws
                of the United States.
                    Sec. 2. (a)(1) There is hereby established a select
                committee to be known as the Select Committee on
                Intelligence (hereinafter in this resolution referred to as
                the ``select committee''). The select committee shall be
                composed of not to exceed fifteen Members appointed as
                follows:
                            (A) two members from the Committee on
                        Appropriations;
                            (B) two members from the Committee on Armed
                        Services;
                            (C) two members from the Committee on Foreign
                        Relations;
                            (D) two members from the Committee on the
                        Judiciary; and
                            (E) not to exceed seven members to be appointed
                        from the Senate at large.
                    (2) Members appointed from each committee named in
                clauses (A) through (D) of paragraph (1) shall be evenly
                divided between the two major political parties and shall be
                appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate upon
                the recommendations of the majority and minority leaders of
                the Senate. Of any members appointed under paragraph (1)(E),
                the majority leader shall appoint the majority members and
                the minority leader shall appoint the minority members, with
                the majority having a one vote margin.
                    (3)(A) The majority leader of the Senate and the
                minority leader of the Senate shall be ex officio members of
                the select committee but shall have no vote in the Committee
                and shall not be counted for purposes of determining a
                quorum.
                    (B) The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on
                Armed Services (if not already a member of the select
                Committee) shall be ex officio members of the select
                Committee but shall have no vote in the Committee and shall
                not be counted for purposes of determining a quorum.

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                    (b) At the beginning of each Congress, the Majority
                Leader of the Senate shall select a chairman of the select
                Committee and the Minority Leader shall select a vice
                chairman for the select Committee. The vice chairman shall
                act in the place and stead of the chairman in the absence of
                the chairman. Neither the chairman nor the vice chairman of
                the select committee shall at the same time serve as
                chairman or ranking minority member of any other committee
                referred to in paragraph 4(e)(1) of rule XXV of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate.
                    (c) The select Committee may be organized into
                subcommittees. Each subcommittee shall have a chairman and a
                vice chairman who are selected by the Chairman and Vice
                Chairman of the select Committee, respectively.
                    Sec. 3. (a) There shall be referred to the select
                committee all proposed legislation, messages, petitions,
                memorials, and other matters relating to the following:
                            (1) The Office of the Director of National
                        Intelligence and the Director of National
                        Intelligence.
                            (2) The Central Intelligence Agency and the
                        Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
                            (3) Intelligence activities of all other
                        departments and agencies of the Government,
                        including, but not limited to, the intelligence
                        activities of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the
                        National Security Agency, and other agencies of the
                        Department of Defense; the Department of State; the
                        Department of Justice; and the Department of the
                        Treasury.
                            (4) The organization or reorganization of any
                        department or agency of the Government to the extent
                        that the organization or reorganization relates to a
                        function or activity involving intelligence
                        activities.
                            (5) Authorizations for appropriations, both
                        direct and indirect, for the following:
                                    (A) The Office of the Director of
                                National Intelligence and the Director of
                                National Intelligence.
                                    (B) The Central Intelligence Agency and
                                the Director of the Central Intelligence
                                Agency.
                                    (C) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
                                    (D) The National Security Agency.
                                    (E) The intelligence activities of other
                                agencies and subdivisions of the Department
                                of Defense.
                                    (F) The intelligence activities of the
                                Department of State.

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                                    (G) The intelligence activities of the
                                Federal Bureau of Investigation.
                                    (H) Any department, agency, or
                                subdivision which is the successor to any
                                agency named in clause (A), (B), (C) or (D);
                                and the activities of any department,
                                agency, or subdivision which is the
                                successor to any department, agency, bureau,
                                or subdivision named in clause (E), (F), or
                                (G) to the extent that the activities of
                                such successor department, agency, or
                                subdivision are activities described in
                                clause (E), (F), or (G).
                    (b)(1) Any proposed legislation reported by the select
                Committee except any legislation involving matters specified
                in clause (1), (2), (5)(A), or (5)(B) of subsection (a),
                containing any matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of
                any standing committee shall, at the request of the chairman
                of such standing committee, be referred to such standing
                committee for its consideration of such matter and be
                reported to the Senate by such standing committee within 10
                days after the day on which such proposed legislation, in
                its entirety and including annexes, is referred to such
                standing committee; and any proposed legislation reported by
                any committee, other than the select Committee, which
                contains any matter within the jurisdiction of the select
                Committee shall, at the request of the chairman of the
                select Committee, be referred to the select Committee for
                its consideration of such matter and be reported to the
                Senate by the select Committee within 10 days after the day
                on which such proposed legislation, in its entirety and
                including annexes, is referred to such committee.
                    (2) In any case in which a committee fails to report any
                proposed legislation referred to it within the time limit
                prescribed in this subsection, such Committee shall be
                automatically discharged from further consideration of such
                proposed legislation on the 10th day following the day on
                which such proposed legislation is referred to such
                committee unless the Senate provides otherwise, or the
                Majority Leader or Minority Leader request, prior to that
                date, an additional 5 days on behalf of the Committee to
                which the proposed legislation was sequentially referred. At
                the end of that additional 5 day period, if the Committee
                fails to report the proposed legislation within that 5 day
                period, the Committee shall be automatically discharged from
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                ther consideration of such proposed legislation unless the
                Senate provides otherwise.
                    (3) In computing any 10 or 5 day period under this
                subsection there shall be excluded from such computation any
                days on which the Senate is not in session.
                    (4) The reporting and referral processes outlined in
                this subsection shall be conducted in strict accordance with
                the Standing Rules of the Senate. In accordance with such
                rules, committees to which legislation is referred are not
                permitted to make changes or alterations to the text of the
                referred bill and its annexes, but may propose changes or
                alterations to the same in the form of amendments.
                    (c) Nothing in this resolution shall be construed as
                prohibiting or otherwise restricting the authority of any
                other committee to study and review any intelligence
                activity to the extent that such activity directly affects a
                matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of such committee.
                    (d) Nothing in this resolution shall be construed as
                amending, limiting, or otherwise changing the authority of
                any standing committee of the Senate to obtain full and
                prompt access to the product of the intelligence activities
                of any department or agency of the Government relevant to a
                matter otherwise within the jurisdiction of such committee.
                    Sec. 4. (a) The select committee, for the purposes of
                accountability to the Senate, shall make regular and
                periodic, but not less than quarterly, reports to the Senate
                on the nature and extent of the intelligence activities of
                the various departments and agencies of the United States.
                Such committee shall promptly call to the attention of the
                Senate or to any other appropriate committee or committees
                of the Senate any matters requiring the attention of the
                Senate or such other committee or committees. In making such
                report, the select committee shall proceed in a manner
                consistent with section 8(c)(2) to protect national
                security.
                    (b) The select committee shall obtain an annual report
                from the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of
                the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secretary of Defense,
                the Secretary of State, and the Director of the Federal
                Bureau of Investigation. Such reports shall review the
                intelligence activities of the agency or department
                concerned and the intelligence activities of foreign
                countries directed at the United States or its interest. An
                unclassified version of each report may be made available to
                the public at the

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                discretion of the select committee. Nothing herein shall be
                construed as requiring the public disclosure in such reports
                of the names of individuals engaged in intelligence
                activities for the United States or the divulging of
                intelligence methods employed or the sources of information
                on which such reports are based or the amount of funds
                authorized to be appropriated for intelligence activities.
                    (c) On or before March 15 of each year, the select
                committee shall submit to the Committee on the Budget of the
                Senate the views and estimates described in section 301(c)
                of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 regarding matters
                within the jurisdiction of the select committee.
                    Sec. 5. (a) For the purposes of this resolution, the
                select committee is authorized in its discretion (1) to make
                investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, (2)
                to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate,
                (3) to employ personnel, (4) to hold hearings, (5) to sit
                and act at any time or place during the sessions, recesses,
                and adjourned periods of the Senate, (6) to require, by
                subpoena or otherwise, the attendance of witnesses and the
                production of correspondence, books, papers, and documents,
                (7) to take depositions and other testimony, (8) to procure
                the service of individual consultants or organizations
                thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 202(i)
                of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and (9) with
                the prior consent of the government department or agency
                concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to
                use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any
                such department or agency.
                    (b) The chairman of the select committee or any member
                thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
                    (c) Subpoenas authorized by the select committee may be
                issued over the signature of the chairman, the vice chairman
                or any member of the select committee designated by the
                chairman, and may be served by any person designated by the
                chairman or any member signing the subpoenas.
                    Sec. 6. No employee of the select committee or any
                person engaged by contract or otherwise to perform services
                for or at the request of such committee shall be given
                access to any classified information by such committee
                unless such employee or person has (1) agreed in writing and
                under oath to be bound by the rules of the Senate (including
                the jurisdiction of the Select Committee on Ethics) and

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                of such committee as to the security of such information
                during and after the period of his employment or contractual
                agreement with such committee; and (2) received an
                appropriate security clearance as determined by such
                committee in consultation with the Director of National
                Intelligence. The type of security clearance to be required
                in the case of any such employee or person shall, within the
                determination of such committee in consultation with the
                Director of National Intelligence, be commensurate with the
                sensitivity of the classified information to which such
                employee or person will be given access by such committee.
                    Sec. 7. The select committee shall formulate and carry
                out such rules and procedures as it deems necessary to
                prevent the disclosure, without the consent of the person or
                persons concerned, of information in the possession of such
                committee which unduly infringes upon the privacy or which
                violates the constitutional rights of such person or
                persons. Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent such
                committee from publicly disclosing any such information in
                any case in which such committee determines the national
                interest in the disclosure of such information clearly
                outweighs any infringement on the privacy of any person or
                persons.
                    Sec. 8. (a) The select committee may, subject to the
                provisions of this section, disclose publicly any
                information in the possession of such committee after a
                determination by such committee that the public interest
                would be served by such disclosure. Whenever committee
                action is required to disclose any information under this
                section, the committee shall meet to vote on the matter
                within five days after any member of the committee requests
                such a vote. No member of the select committee shall
                disclose any information, the disclosure of which requires a
                committee vote, prior to a vote by the committee on the
                question of the disclosure of such information or after such
                vote except in accordance with this section.
                    (b)(1) In any case in which the select committee votes
                to disclose publicly any information which has been
                classified under established security procedures, which has
                been submitted to it by the Executive branch, and which the
                Executive branch requests be kept secret, such committee
                shall--
                            (A) first, notify the Majority Leader and
                        Minority Leader of the Senate of such vote; and

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                            (B) second, consult with the Majority Leader and
                        Minority Leader before notifying the President of
                        such vote.
                    (2) The select committee may disclose publicly such
                information after the expiration of a five-day period
                following the day on which notice of such vote is
                transmitted to the Majority Leader and the Minority Leader
                and the President, unless, prior to the expiration of such
                five-day period, the President, personally in writing,
                notifies the committee that he objects to the disclosure of
                such information, provides his reasons therefore, and
                certifies that the threat to the national interest of the
                United States posed by such disclosure is of such gravity
                that it outweighs any public interest in the disclosure.
                    (3) If the President, personally, in writing, notifies
                the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of the Senate and
                the select Committee of his objections to the disclosure of
                such information as provided in paragraph (2), the Majority
                Leader and Minority Leader jointly or the select Committee,
                by majority vote, may refer the question of the disclosure
                of such information to the Senate for consideration.
                    (4) Whenever the select committee votes to refer the
                question of disclosure of any information to the Senate
                under paragraph (3), the Chairman shall not later than the
                first day on which the Senate is in session following the
                day on which the vote occurs, report the matter to the
                Senate for its consideration.
                    (5) One hour after the Senate convenes on the fourth day
                on which the Senate is in session following the day on which
                any such matter is reported to the Senate, or at such
                earlier time as the majority leader and the minority leader
                of the Senate jointly agree upon in accordance with
                paragraph 5 of rule XVII of the Standing Rules of the
                Senate, the Senate shall go into closed session and the
                matter shall be the pending business. In considering the
                matter in closed session the Senate may--
                            (A) approve the public disclosure of all or any
                        portion of the information in question, in which
                        case the committee shall publicly disclose the
                        information ordered to be disclosed,
                            (B) disapprove the public disclosure of all or
                        any portion of the information in question, in which
                        case the committee shall not publicly disclose the
                        information ordered not to be disclosed, or

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                            (C) refer all or any portion of the matter back
                        to the committee, in which case the committee shall
                        make the final determination with respect to the
                        public disclosure of the information in question.
                Upon conclusion of the consideration of such matter in
                closed session, which may not extend beyond the close of the
                ninth day on which the Senate is in session following the
                day on which such matter was reported to the Senate, or the
                close of the fifth day following the day agreed upon jointly
                by the majority and minority leaders in accordance with
                paragraph 5 of rule XVII of the Standing Rules of the Senate
                (whichever the case may be), the Senate shall immediately
                vote on the disposition of such matter in open session,
                without debate, and without divulging the information with
                respect to which the vote is being taken. The Senate shall
                vote to dispose of such matter by one or more of the means
                specified in clauses (A), (B), and (C) of the second
                sentence of this paragraph. Any vote of the Senate to
                disclose any information pursuant to this paragraph shall be
                subject to the right of a Member of the Senate to move for
                reconsideration of the vote within the time and pursuant to
                the procedures specified in rule XIII of the Standing Rules
                of the Senate, and the disclosure of such information shall
                be made consistent with that right.
                    (c)(1) No information in the possession of the select
                committee relating to the lawful intelligence activities of
                any department or agency of the United States which has been
                classified under established security procedures and which
                the select committee, pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of
                this section, has determined should not be disclosed shall
                be made available to any person by a Member, officer, or
                employee of the Senate except in a closed session of the
                Senate or as provided in paragraph (2).
                    (2) The select committee may, under such regulations as
                the committee shall prescribe to protect the confidentiality
                of such information, make any information described in
                paragraph (1) available to any other committee or any other
                Member of the Senate. Whenever the select committee makes
                such information available, the committee shall keep a
                written record showing, in the case of any particular
                information, which committee or which Members of the Senate
                received such information. No Member of the Senate who, and
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                information under this subsection, shall disclose such
                information except in a closed session of the Senate.
                    (d) It shall be the duty of the Select Committee on
                Ethics to investigate any unauthorized disclosure of
                intelligence information by a Member, officer or employee of
                the Senate in violation of subsection (c) and to report to
                the Senate concerning any allegation which it finds to be
                substantiated.
                    (e) Upon the request of any person who is subject to any
                such investigation, the Select Committee on Ethics shall
                release to such individual at the conclusion of its
                investigation a summary of its investigation together with
                its findings. If, at the conclusion of its investigation,
                the Select Committee on Ethics determines that there has
                been a significant breach of confidentiality or unauthorized
                disclosure by a Member, officer, or employee of the Senate,
                it shall report its findings to the Senate and recommend
                appropriate action such as censure, removal from committee
                membership, or expulsion from the Senate, in the case of a
                Member, or removal from office or employment or punishment
                for contempt, in the case of an officer or employee.
                    Sec. 9. The select committee is authorized to permit any
                personal representative of the President, designated by the
                President to serve as a liaison to such committee, to attend
                any closed meeting of such committee.
                    Sec. 10. Upon expiration of the Select Committee on
                Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence
                Activities, established by Senate Resolution 21, Ninety-
                fourth Congress, all records, files, documents, and other
                materials in the possession, custody, or control of such
                committee, under appropriate conditions established by it,
                shall be transferred to the select committee.
                    Sec. 11. (a) It is the sense of the Senate that the head
                of each department and agency of the United States should
                keep the select committee fully and currently informed with
                respect to intelligence activities, including any
                significant anticipated activities, which are the
                responsibility of or engaged in by such department or
                agency: Provided, That this does not constitute a condition
                precedent to the implementation of any such anticipated
                intelligence activity.
                    (b) It is the sense of the Senate that the head of any
                department or agency of the United States involved in any
                intelligence activities should furnish any information or

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                document in the possession, custody, or control of the
                department or agency, or person paid by such department or
                agency, whenever requested by the select committee with
                respect to any matter within such committee's jurisdiction.
                    (c) It is the sense of the Senate that each department
                and agency of the United States should report immediately
                upon discovery to the select committee any and all
                intelligence activities which constitute violations of the
                constitutional rights of any person, violations of law, or
                violations of Executive orders, Presidential directives, or
                departmental or agency rules or regulations; each department
                and agency should further report to such committee what
                actions have been taken or are expected to be taken by the
                departments or agencies with respect to such violations.
                    Sec. 12. Subject to the Standing Rules of the Senate, no
                funds shall be appropriated for any fiscal year beginning
                after September 30, 1976, with the exception of a continuing
                bill or resolution, or amendment thereto, or conference
                report thereon, to, or for use of, any department or agency
                of the United States to carry out any of the following
                activities, unless such funds shall have been previously
                authorized by a bill or joint resolution passed by the
                Senate during the same or preceding fiscal year to carry out
                such activity for such fiscal year:
                            (1) The activities of the Office of the Director
                        of National Intelligence and the Director of
                        National Intelligence.
                            (2) The activities of the Central Intelligence
                        Agency and the Director of the Central Intelligence
                        Agency.
                            (3) The activities of the Defense Intelligence
                        Agency.
                            (4) The activities of the National Security
                        Agency.
                            (5) The intelligence activities of other
                        agencies and subdivisions of the Department of
                        Defense.
                            (6) The intelligence activities of the
                        Department of State.
                            (7) The intelligence activities of the Federal
                        Bureau of Investigation.
                    Sec. 13. (a) The select committee shall make a study
                with respect to the following matters, taking into
                consideration with respect to each such matter, all relevant
                aspects of the effectiveness of planning, gathering, use,
                security, and dissemination of intelligence:

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                            (1) the quality of the analytical capabilities
                        of United States foreign intelligence agencies and
                        means for integrating more closely analytical
                        intelligence and policy formulation;
                            (2) the extent and nature of the authority of
                        the departments and agencies of the Executive branch
                        to engage in intelligence activities and the
                        desirability of developing charters for each
                        intelligence agency or department;
                            (3) the organization of intelligence activities
                        in the Executive branch to maximize the
                        effectiveness of the conduct, oversight, and
                        accountability of intelligence activities; to reduce
                        duplication or overlap; and to improve the morale of
                        the personnel of the foreign intelligence agencies;
                            (4) the conduct of covert and clandestine
                        activities and the procedures by which Congress is
                        informed of such activities;
                            (5) the desirability of changing any law, Senate
                        rule or procedure, or any Executive order, rule, or
                        regulation to improve the protection of intelligence
                        secrets and provide for disclosure of information
                        for which there is no compelling reason for secrecy;
                            (6) the desirability of establishing a standing
                        committee of the Senate on intelligence activities;
                            (7) the desirability of establishing a joint
                        committee of the Senate and the House of
                        Representatives on intelligence activities in lieu
                        of having separate committees in each House of
                        Congress, or of establishing procedures under which
                        separate committees on intelligence activities of
                        the two Houses of Congress would receive joint
                        briefings from the intelligence agencies and
                        coordinate their policies with respect to the
                        safeguarding of sensitive intelligence information;
                            (8) the authorization of funds for the
                        intelligence activities of the Government and
                        whether disclosure of any of the amounts of such
                        funds is in the public interest; and
                            (9) the development of a uniform set of
                        definitions for terms to be used in policies or
                        guidelines which may be adopted by the executive or
                        legislative branches to govern, clarify, and
                        strengthen the operation of intelligence activities.
                    (b) The select committee may, in its discretion, omit
                from the special study required by this section any matter
                it

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                determines has been adequately studied by the Select
                Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to
                Intelligence Activities, established by Senate Resolution
                21, Ninety-fourth Congress.
                    (c) The select committee shall report the results of the
                study provided for by this section to the Senate, together
                with any recommendations for legislative or other actions it
                deems appropriate, no later than July 1, 1977, and from time
                to time thereafter as it deems appropriate.
                    Sec. 14. (a) As used in this resolution, the term
                ``intelligence activities'' includes (1) the collection,
                analysis, production, dissemination, or use of information
                which relates to any foreign country, or any government,
                political group, party, military force, movement, or other
                association in such foreign country, and which relates to
                the defense, foreign policy, national security, or related
                policies of the United States, and other activity which is
                in support of such activities; (2) activities taken to
                counter similar activities directed against the United
                States; (3) covert or clandestine activities affecting the
                relations of the United States with any foreign government,
                political group, party, military force, movement or other
                association; (4) the collection, analysis, production,
                dissemination, or use of information about activities of
                persons within the United States, its territories and
                possessions, or nationals of the United States abroad whose
                political and related activities pose, or may be considered
                by any department, agency, bureau, office, division,
                instrumentality, or employee of the United States to pose, a
                threat to the internal security of the United States, and
                covert or clandestine activities directed against such
                persons. Such term does not include tactical foreign
                military intelligence serving no national policymaking
                function.
                    (b) As used in this resolution, the term ``department or
                agency'' includes any organization, committee, council,
                establishment, or office within the Federal Government.
                    (c) For purposes of this resolution, reference to any
                department, agency, bureau, or subdivision shall include a
                reference to any successor department, agency, bureau, or
                subdivision to the extent that such successor engages in
                intelligence activities now conducted by the department,
                agency, bureau, or subdivision referred to in this
                resolution.

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                    Sec. 15. (a) In addition to other committee staff
                selected by the select Committee, the select Committee shall
                hire or appoint one employee for each member of the select
                Committee to serve as such Member's designated
                representative on the select Committee. The select Committee
                shall only hire or appoint an employee chosen by the
                respective Member of the select Committee for whom the
                employee will serve as the designated representative on the
                select Committee.
                    (b) The select Committee shall be afforded a supplement
                to its budget, to be determined by the Committee on Rules
                and Administration, to allow for the hire of each employee
                who fills the position of designated representative to the
                select Committee. The designated representative shall have
                office space and appropriate office equipment in the select
                Committee spaces. Designated personal representatives shall
                have the same access to Committee staff, information,
                records, and databases as select Committee staff, as
                determined by the Chairman and Vice Chairman.
                    (c) The designated employee shall meet all the
                requirements of relevant statutes, Senate rules, and
                committee security clearance requirements for employment by
                the select Committee.
                    (d) Of the funds made available to the select Committee
                for personnel--
                            (1) not more than 60 percent shall be under the
                        control of the Chairman; and
                            (2) not less than 40 percent shall be under the
                        control of the Vice Chairman.
                    Sec. 16. Nothing in this resolution shall be construed
                as constituting acquiescence by the Senate in any practice,
                or in the conduct of any activity, not otherwise authorized
                by law.
                    Sec. 17. (a)(1) Except as provided in subsections (b)
                and (c), the Select Committee shall have jurisdiction to
                review, hold hearings, and report the nominations of
                civilian individuals for positions in the intelligence
                community for which appointments are made by the President,
                by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
                    (2) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), other
                committees with jurisdiction over the department or agency
                of the Executive Branch which contain a position referred to
                in paragraph (1) may hold hearings and interviews with

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                individuals nominated for such position, but only the Select
                Committee shall report such nomination.
                    (3) In this subsection, the term `intelligence
                community' means an element of the intelligence community
                specified in or designated under section 3(4) of the
                National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).
                    (b)(1) With respect to the confirmation of the Assistant
                Attorney General for National Security, or any successor
                position, the nomination of any individual by the President
                to serve in such position shall be referred to the Committee
                on the Judiciary and, if and when reported, to the Select
                Committee for not to exceed 20 calendar days, except that in
                cases when the 20-day period expires while the Senate is in
                recess, the Select Committee shall have 5 additional
                calendar days after the Senate reconvenes to report the
                nomination.
                    (2) If, upon the expiration of the period described in
                paragraph (1), the Select Committee has not reported the
                nomination, such nomination shall be automatically
                discharged from the Select Committee and placed on the
                Executive Calendar.
                    (c)(1) With respect to the confirmation of appointment
                to the position of Director of the National Security Agency,
                Inspector General of the National Security Agency, Director
                of the National Reconnaissance Office, or Inspector General
                of the National Reconnaissance Office, or any successor
                position to such a position, the nomination of any
                individual by the President to serve in such position, who
                at the time of the nomination is a member of the Armed
                Forces on active duty, shall be referred to the Committee on
                Armed Services and, if and when reported, to the Select
                Committee for not to exceed 30 calendar days, except that in
                cases when the 30-day period expires while the Senate is in
                recess, the Select Committee shall have 5 additional
                calendar days after the Senate reconvenes to report the
                nomination.
                    (2) With respect to the confirmation of appointment to
                the position of Director of the National Security Agency,
                Inspector General of the National Security Agency, Director
                of the National Reconnaissance Office, or Inspector General
                or the National Reconnaissance Office, or any successor
                position to such a position, the nomination of any
                individual by the President to serve in such position, who
                at the time of the nomination is not a member of the Armed

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                Forces on active duty, shall be referred to the Select
                Committee and, if and when reported, to the Committee on
                Armed Services for not to exceed 30 calendar days, except
                that in cases when the 30-day period expires while the
                Senate is in recess, the Committee on Armed Services shall
                have an additional 5 calendar days after the Senate
                reconvenes to report the nomination.
                    (3) If, upon the expiration of the period of sequential
                referral described in paragraphs (1) and (2), the committee
                to which the nomination was sequentially referred has not
                reported the nomination, the nomination shall be
                automatically discharged from that committee and placed on
                the Executive Calendar.

                  [S. Res. 400, 94-2, May 19, 1976, as amended S. Res. 470,
                 113-2, July 7, 2014; S. Res. 4, Feb. 4, 1977; S. Res. 445,
                  108-2, Oct. 9, 2004, Pub. L. 109-77, Sec.  506. 120 Stat.
                      247, March 9, 2006; S. Res. 50, 110-1, Feb. 14, 2007.]

            83          HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT

                    To eliminate certain restrictions on service of a
                Senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

                    Resolved,

                    Sec. 100. Purpose.

                    It is the purpose of titles I through V of this
                resolution to improve the effectiveness of the Senate Select
                Committee on Intelligence, especially with regard to its
                oversight of the Intelligence Community of the United States
                Government, and to improve the Senate's oversight of
                homeland security.

                         TITLE I--HOMELAND SECURITY OVERSIGHT REFORM

                    Sec. 101. Homeland Security.

                            (a) Committee on Homeland Security and
                        Government Affairs.--The Committee on Governmental
                        Affairs is renamed as the Committee on Homeland
                        Security and Governmental Affairs.
                            (b) Jurisdiction.--There shall be referred to
                        the committee all proposed legislation, messages,
                        petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to
                        the following subjects:
                              (1) Department of Homeland Security, except
                        matters relating to--
                                    (A) the Coast Guard, the Transportation
                                Security Administration, the Federal Law
                                Enforcement Training Center or the Secret
                                Service; and

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                                    (B)(i) the United States Citizenship and
                                Immigration Service; or
                                    (ii) the immigration functions of the
                                United States Customs and Border Protection
                                or the United States Immigration and Custom
                                Enforcement or the Directorate of Border and
                                Transportation Security; and
                                    (C) the following functions performed by
                                any employee of the Department of Homeland
                                Security--
                                      (i) any customs revenue function
                                including any function provided for in
                                section 415 of the Homeland Security Act of
                                2002 (Public Law 107-296);
                                      (ii) any commercial function or
                                commercial operation of the Bureau of
                                Customs and Border Protection or Bureau of
                                Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
                                including matters relating to trade
                                facilitation and trade regulation; or
                                      (iii) any other function related to
                                clause (i) or (ii) that was exercised by the
                                United States Customs Service on the day
                                before the effective date of the Homeland
                                Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296).
                    The jurisdiction of the Committee on Homeland Security
                and Governmental Affairs in this paragraph shall supersede
                the jurisdiction of any other committee of the Senate
                provided in the rules of the Senate: Provided, That the
                jurisdiction provided under section 101(b)(1) shall not
                include the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, or
                functions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency related
                thereto.
                              (2) Archives of the United States.
                              (3) Budget and accounting measures, other than
                        appropriations, except as provided in the
                        Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
                              (4) Census and collection of statistics,
                        including economic and social statistics.
                              (5) Congressional organization, except for any
                        part of the matter that amends the rules or orders
                        of the Senate.
                              (6) Federal Civil Service.
                              (7) Government information.
                              (8) Intergovernmental relations.

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                              (9) Municipal affairs of the District of
                        Columbia, except appropriations therefor.
                              (10) Organization and management of United
                        States nuclear export policy.
                              (11) Organization and reorganization of the
                        executive branch of the Government.
                              (12) Postal Service.
                              (13) Status of officers and employees of the
                        United States, including their classification,
                        compensation, and benefits.
                            (c) Additional Duties.--The committee shall have
                        the duty of--
                              (1) receiving and examining reports of the
                        Comptroller General of the United States and of
                        submitting such recommendations to the Senate as it
                        deems necessary or desirable in connection with the
                        subject matter of such reports;
                              (2) studying the efficiency, economy, and
                        effectiveness of all agencies and departments of the
                        Government;
                              (3) evaluating the effects of laws enacted to
                        reorganize the legislative and executive branches of
                        the Government; and
                              (4) studying the intergovernmental
                        relationships between the United States and the
                        States and municipalities, and between the United
                        States and international organizations of which the
                        United States is a member.
                            (d) Jurisdiction Of Budget Committee.--
                        Notwithstanding paragraph (b)(3) of this section,
                        and except as otherwise provided in the
                        Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee on
                        the Budget shall have exclusive jurisdiction over
                        measures affecting the congressional budget process,
                        which are--
                              (1) the functions, duties, and powers of the
                        Budget Committee;
                              (2) the functions, duties, and powers of the
                        Congressional Budget Office;
                              (3) the process by which Congress annually
                        establishes the appropriate levels of budget
                        authority, outlays, revenues, deficits or surpluses,
                        and public debt--including subdivisions thereof--and
                        including the establishment of mandatory ceilings on
                        spending and appropriations, a floor on revenues,
                        timetables for congressional action on concurrent
                        resolutions, on the

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                        reporting of authorization bills, and on the
                        enactment of appropriation bills, and enforcement
                        mechanisms for budgetary limits and timetables;
                              (4) the limiting of backdoor spending devices;
                              (5) the timetables for Presidential submission
                        of appropriations and authorization requests;
                              (6) the definitions of what constitutes
                        impoundment--such as ``rescissions'' and
                        ``deferrals'';
                              (7) the process and determination by which
                        impoundments must be reported to and considered by
                        Congress;
                              (8) the mechanisms to insure Executive
                        compliance with the provisions of the Impoundment
                        Control Act, title X--such as GAO review and
                        lawsuits; and
                              (9) the provisions which affect the content or
                        determination of amounts included in or excluded
                        from the congressional budget or the calculation of
                        such amounts, including the definition of terms
                        provided by the Budget Act.
                            (e) OMB Nominees.--The Committee on the Budget
                        and the Committee on Homeland Security and
                        Governmental Affairs shall have joint jurisdiction
                        over the nominations of persons nominated by the
                        President to fill the positions of Director and
                        Deputy Director for Budget within the Office of
                        Management and Budget, and if one committee votes to
                        order reported such a nomination, the other must
                        report within 30 calendar days session, or be
                        automatically discharged.

                           TITLE II--INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT REFORM

                    Sec. 201. Intelligence Oversight.

                            (a) Committee on Armed Services Membership.--
                        Section 2(a)(3) of Senate Resolution 400, agreed to
                        May 19, 1976 (94th Congress) (referred to in this
                        section as ``S. Res. 400'') is amended by--
                              (1) inserting ``(A)'' after ``(3)''; and
                              (2) inserting at the end the following:
                                    ``(B) The Chairman and Ranking Member of
                                the Committee on Armed Services (if not
                                already a member of the select Committee)
                                shall be ex officio members of the select
                                Committee but shall have no vote in the
                                Committee and shall not be counted for
                                purposes of determining a quorum.''.
                            (b) Number Of Members.--Section 2(a) of S. Res.
                        400 is amended--

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                              (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``not to
                        exceed'' before ``fifteen members'';
                              (2) in paragraph (1)(E), by inserting ``not to
                        exceed'' before ``seven''; and
                              (3) in paragraph (2), by striking the second
                        sentence and inserting ``Of any members appointed
                        under paragraph (1)(E), the majority leader shall
                        appoint the majority members and the minority leader
                        shall appoint the minority members, with the
                        majority having a one vote margin.''.
                            (c) Elimination of Term Limits.--Section 2 of
                        Senate Resolution 400, 94th Congress, agreed to May
                        19, 1976, is amended by striking subsection (b) and
                        by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (b).
                            (d) Appointment of Chairman and Vice Chairman.--
                        Section 2(b) of S. Res. 400, as redesignated by
                        subsection (c) of this section, is amended by
                        striking the first sentence and inserting the
                        following: ``At the beginning of each Congress, the
                        Majority Leader of the Senate shall select a
                        chairman of the select Committee and the Minority
                        Leader shall select a vice chairman for the select
                        Committee.''.
                            (e) Subcommittees.--Section 2 of S. Res. 400, as
                        amended by subsections (a) through (d), is amended
                        by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(c) The select Committee may be organized into
                        subcommittees. Each subcommittee shall have a
                        chairman and a vice chairman who are selected by the
                        Chairman and Vice Chairman of the select Committee,
                        respectively.''.
                            (f) Reports.--Section 4(a) of S. Res. 400 is
                        amended by inserting ``, but not less than
                        quarterly,'' after ``periodic''.
                            (g) Staff.--Section 15 of S. Res. 400 is amended
                        to read as follows:
                            ``Sec. 15. (a) In addition to other committee
                        staff selected by the select Committee, the select
                        Committee shall hire or appoint one employee for
                        each member of the select Committee to serve as such
                        Member's designated representative on the select
                        Committee. The select Committee shall only hire or
                        appoint an employee chosen by the respective Member
                        of the select Committee for whom the employee will
                        serve as the designated representative on the select
                        Committee.

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                            ``(b) The select Committee shall be afforded a
                        supplement to its budget, to be determined by the
                        Committee on Rules and Administration, to allow for
                        the hire of each employee who fills the position of
                        designated representative to the select Committee.
                        The designated representative shall have office
                        space and appropriate office equipment in the select
                        Committee spaces. Designated personal
                        representatives shall have the same access to
                        Committee staff, information, records, and databases
                        as select Committee staff, as determined by the
                        Chairman and Vice Chairman.
                            ``(c) The designated employee shall meet all the
                        requirements of relevant statutes, Senate rules, and
                        committee security clearance requirements for
                        employment by the select Committee.
                            ``(d) Of the funds made available to the select
                        Committee for personnel--
                              ``(1) not more than 60 percent shall be under
                        the control of the Chairman; and
                              ``(2) not less than 40 percent shall be under
                        the control of the Vice Chairman.''.
                            (h) Nominees.--S. Res. 400 is amended by adding
                        at the end the following:
                            ``Sec. 17. (a) The select Committee shall have
                        jurisdiction for reviewing, holding hearings, and
                        reporting the nominations of civilian persons
                        nominated by the President to fill all positions
                        within the intelligence community requiring the
                        advice and consent of the Senate.
                            ``(b) Other committees with jurisdiction over
                        the nominees' executive branch department may hold
                        hearings and interviews with such persons, but only
                        the select Committee shall report such
                        nominations.''.
                            (i) Jurisdiction.--Section 3(b) of S. Res. 400
                        is amended to read as follows:
                            ``(b)(1) Any proposed legislation reported by
                        the select Committee except any legislation
                        involving matters specified in clause (1) or (4)(A)
                        of subsection (a), containing any matter otherwise
                        within the jurisdiction of any standing committee
                        shall, at the request of the chairman of such
                        standing committee, be referred to such standing
                        committee for its consideration of such matter and
                        be reported to the Senate by such standing committee
                        within 10 days after the day on which such proposed
                        legislation, in its entirety

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                        and including annexes, is referred to such standing
                        committee; and any proposed legislation reported by
                        any committee, other than the select Committee,
                        which contains any matter within the jurisdiction of
                        the select Committee shall, at the request of the
                        chairman of the select Committee, be referred to the
                        select Committee for its consideration of such
                        matter and be reported to the Senate by the select
                        Committee within 10 days after the day on which such
                        proposed legislation, in its entirety and including
                        annexes, is referred to such committee.
                            ``(2) In any case in which a committee fails to
                        report any proposed legislation referred to it
                        within the time limit prescribed in this subsection,
                        such Committee shall be automatically discharged
                        from further consideration of such proposed
                        legislation on the 10th day following the day on
                        which such proposed legislation is referred to such
                        committee unless the Senate provides otherwise, or
                        the Majority Leader or Minority Leader request,
                        prior to that date, an additional 5 days on behalf
                        of the Committee to which the proposed legislation
                        as sequentially referred. At the end of that
                        additional 5 day period, if the Committee fails to
                        report the proposed legislation within that 5 day
                        period, the Committee shall be automatically
                        discharged from further consideration of such
                        proposed legislation unless the Senate provides
                        otherwise.
                            ``(3) In computing any 10 or 5 day period under
                        this subsection there shall be excluded from such
                        computation any days on which the Senate is not the
                        session.
                            ``(4) The reporting and referral processes
                        outlined in this subsection shall be conducted in
                        strict accordance with the Standing Rules of the
                        Senate. In accordance with such rules, committees to
                        which legislation is referred are not permitted to
                        make changes or alterations to the text of the
                        referred bill and its annexes, but may propose
                        changes or alterations to the same in the form of
                        amendments.''.
                            (j) Public Disclosure.--Section 8 of S. Res. 400
                        is amended--
                              (1) in subsection (b)--
                                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking
                                ``shall notify the President of such vote''
                                and inserting ``shall--

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                                      ``(A) first, notify the Majority
                                Leader and Minority Leader of the Senate of
                                such vote; and
                                      ``(B) second, consult with the
                                Majority Leader and Minority Leader before
                                notifying the President of such vote.'';
                                    (B) in paragraph (2), by striking
                                ``transmitted to the President'' and
                                inserting ``transmitted to the Majority
                                Leader and the Minority Leader and the
                                President''; and
                                    (C) by amending paragraph (3) to read as
                                follows:
                              ``(3) If the President, personally, in
                        writing, notifies the Majority Leader and Minority
                        Leader of the Senate and the select Committee of his
                        objections to the disclosure of such information as
                        provided in paragraph (2), the Majority Leader and
                        Minority Leader jointly or the select Committee, by
                        majority vote, may refer the question of the
                        disclosure of such information to the Senate for
                        consideration.''.

                                 TITLE III--COMMITTEE STATUS

                    Sec. 301. Committee Status.

                            (a) Homeland Security.--The Committee on
                        Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs shall be
                        treated as the Committee on Governmental Affairs
                        listed under paragraph 2 of rule XXV of the Standing
                        Rules of the Senate for purposes of the Standing
                        Rules of the Senate.
                            (b) Intelligence.--The Select Committee on
                        Intelligence shall be treated as a committee listed
                        under paragraph 2 of rule XXV of the Standing Rules
                        of the Senate for purposes of the Standing Rules of
                        the Senate.

                        TITLE IV--INTELLIGENCE RELATED SUBCOMMITTEES

                    Sec. 401. Subcommittee Related on Intelligence
                Oversight.

                            (a) Establishment.--There is established in the
                        Select Committee on Intelligence a Subcommittee on
                        Oversight which shall be in addition to any other
                        subcommittee established by the select Committee.
                            (b) Responsibility.--The Subcommittee on
                        Oversight shall be responsible for ongoing oversight
                        of intelligence activities.

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                    Sec. 402. Subcommittee Related to Intelligence
                Appropriations.

                            (a) Establishment.--There is established in the
                        Committee on Appropriations a Subcommittee on
                        Intelligence. The Committee on Appropriations shall
                        reorganize into 13 subcommittees as soon as possible
                        after the convening of the 109th Congress.
                            (b) Jurisdiction.--The Subcommittee on
                        Intelligence of the Committee on Appropriations
                        shall have jurisdiction over funding for
                        intelligence matters, as determined by the Senate
                        Committee on Appropriations.

                                   TITLE V--EFFECTIVE DATE

                    Sec. 501. Effective Date.

                    This resolution shall take effect on the convening of
                the 109th Congress.

                                         [S. Res. 445, 108-2, Oct. 9, 2004.]

            84          REORGANIZATION OF SENATE COMMITTEE SYSTEM\9\
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                Senate and various Senate resolutions, were temporary in
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                    Resolved, That this resolution may be cited as the
                ``Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 1977''.

                     TITLE I--SENATE COMMITTEES; JURISDICTIONS AND SIZES

                                        * * * * * * *

            85                   SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING

                    Sec. 104. (a)(1) There is established a Special
                Committee on Aging (hereafter in this section referred to as
                the ``special committee'') which shall consist of
                nineteen\10\ members. The members and chairman of the
                special committee shall be appointed in the same manner and
                at the same time as the members and chairman of a standing
                committee of the Senate. After the date on which the
                majority and minority members of the special committee are
                initially appointed on or after the effective date of Title
                I of the Committee System Reorganization Amendments of 1977,
                each time a vacancy occurs in the membership of the special
                committee, the number of members of the special committee
                shall be reduced by one until the number of members of the
                special committee consists of nine Senators.
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                    (2)\11\ For purposes of paragraph 1 of rule XXV;
                paragraphs 1, 7(a)(1)-(2), 9, and 10(a) of rule XXVI; and
                paragraphs 1(a)-(d), and 2 (a) and (d) of rule XXVII of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate; and for purposes of section
                202 (i) and (j) of the Legislative Reorganization Act of
                1946, the special committee shall be treated as a standing
                committee of the Senate.\12\
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                    \11\The references in this paragraph were changed as a
                result of the adoption of S. Res. 274, 96-1, Nov. 14, 1979;
                and further changed as a result of the adoption of S. Res.
                389, 96-2, Mar. 25, 1980.
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                    (b)(1) It shall be the duty of the special committee to
                conduct a continuing study of any and all matters pertaining
                to problems and opportunities of older people, including,
                but not limited to, problems and opportunities of
                maintaining health, of assuring adequate income, of finding
                employment, of engaging in productive and rewarding
                activity, of securing proper housing, and, when necessary,
                of obtaining care or assistance. No proposed legislation
                shall be referred to such committee, and such committee
                shall not have power to report by bill, or otherwise have
                legislative jurisdiction.
                    (2) The special committee shall, from time to time (but
                not less often than once each year), report to the Senate
                the results of the study conducted pursuant to paragraph
                (1), together with such recommendation as it considers
                appropriate.
                    (c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the special
                committee is authorized, in its discretion, (A) to make
                investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, (B)
                to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate,
                (C) to employ personnel, (D) to hold hearings, (E) to sit
                and act at any time or place during the sessions, recesses,
                and adjourned periods of the Senate, (F) to require, by
                subpoena or otherwise, the attendance of witnesses and the
                production of correspondence, books, papers, and documents,
                (G) to take depositions and other testimony, (H) to procure
                the services of individual consultations or organizations
                thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 202(i)
                of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and (I) with
                the prior consent of the Government department or agency
                concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to
                use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any
                such department or agency.

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                    (2) The chairman of the special committee or any member
                thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
                    (3) Subpenas authorized by the special committee may be
                issued over the signature of the chairman, or any member of
                the special committee designated by the chairman, and may be
                served by any person designated by the chairman or the
                member signing the Subpena.
                    (d) All records and papers of the temporary Special
                Committee on Aging established by Senate Resolution 33,
                Eighty-seventh Congress, are transferred to the special
                committee.
                    (e) (Executed.)

            86                 COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS\13\

                    Sec. 105. (a)(1) There is established a Select Committee
                on Indian Affairs (hereafter in this section referred to as
                the ``select committee'') which shall consist of seven\14\
                members, four to be appointed by the President of the
                Senate, upon the recommendation of the majority leader, from
                among members of the majority party and three to be
                appointed by the President of the Senate, upon the
                recommendation of the minority leader, from among the
                members of the minority party. The select committee shall
                select a chairman from among its members.
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                Affairs'' by S. Res. 71, 103-1, Feb. 25, 1993.
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                Rules.
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                    (2) A majority of the members of the committee shall
                constitute a quorum thereof for the transaction of business,
                except that the select committee may fix a lesser number as
                a quorum for the purpose of taking testimony. The select
                committee shall adopt rules of procedure not inconsistent
                with this section and the rules of the Senate governing
                standing committees of the Senate.
                    (3) Vacancies in the membership of the select committee
                shall not affect the authority of the remaining members to
                execute the functions of the select committee.
                    (4) For purposes of paragraph 4\15\ of rule XXV of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate, service of a Senator as a
                member or chairman of the select committee shall not be
                taken into account.
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                    (b)(1) All proposed legislation, messages, petitions,
                memorials, and other matters relating to Indian affairs
                shall be referred to the select committee.
                    (2) It shall be the duty of the select committee to
                conduct a study of any and all matters pertaining to
                problems and opportunities of Indians, including but not
                limited to, Indian land management and trust
                responsibilities, Indian education, health, special
                services, and loan programs, and Indian claims against the
                United States.
                    (3) The select committee shall from time to time report
                to the Senate, by bill or otherwise, its recommendations
                with respect to matters referred to the select committee or
                otherwise within its jurisdiction.
                    (c)(1) For the purposes of this section, the select
                committee is authorized, in its discretion, (A) to make
                investigations into any matter within its jurisdiction, (B)
                to make expenditures from the contingent fund of the Senate,
                (C) to employ personnel, (D) to hold hearings, (E) to sit
                and act at any time or place during the sessions, recesses,
                and adjourned periods of the Senate, (F) to require, by
                subpoena or otherwise, the attendance of witnesses and the
                production of correspondence, books, papers, and documents,
                (G) to take depositions and other testimony, (H) to procure
                the services of individual consultants or organizations
                thereof, in accordance with the provisions of section 202(i)
                of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946, and (I) with
                the prior consent of the Government department or agency
                concerned and the Committee on Rules and Administration, to
                use on a reimbursable basis the services of personnel of any
                such department or agency.
                    (2) The chairman of the select committee or any member
                thereof may administer oaths to witnesses.
                    (3) Subpoenas authorized by the select committee may be
                issued over the signature of the chairman, or any member of
                the select committee designated by the chairman, and may be
                served by any person designated by the chairman or the
                member signing the subpoena.

                                        * * * * * * *

                [Sec. 105 of S. Res. 4, 95-1, Feb. 4, 1977; S. Res. 405, 95-
                2, Oct. 15, 1978; S. Res. 448, 96-2, Dec. 11, 1980; Cong.
                Rec., Nov. 18, 1983, p. 34680; S. Res. 127, 98-2, June 6,
                1984.]

          86.1         TITLE II--COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS; CHAIRMANSHIPS

                    Sec. 201. * * *
                    (f) It is the sense of the Senate that, in adopting
                rules, each committee of the Senate should include a
                provision

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                to insure that assignment of Senators to subcommittees will
                occur in an equitable fashion; namely, that no member of a
                committee will receive assignment to a second subcommittee
                until, in order of seniority, all members of the committee
                have chosen assignments to one subcommittee, and no member
                shall receive assignment to a third subcommittee until, in
                order of seniority, all members have chosen assignments to
                two subcommittees.

                                        * * * * * * *

          86.2           TITLE IV--SCHEDULING OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS

                    Sec. 401. (a) In consultation with the Majority Leader
                and the Minority Leader, the Committee on Rules and
                Administration shall establish and maintain a computerized
                schedule of all meetings of committees of the Senate and
                subcommittees thereof, and of all meetings of joint
                committees of the Congress and subcommittees thereof. Such
                schedule shall be maintained online to terminals in the
                offices of all Senators, committees of the Senate, and
                permanent joint committees of the Congress, and shall be
                updated immediately upon receipt of notices of meetings or
                cancellations thereof under this section.
                    (b) Each committee of the Senate, and each subcommittee
                thereof, shall notify the office designated by the Committee
                on Rules and Administration of each meeting of such
                committee or subcommittee, including the time period or
                periods (as prescribed in paragraph 6 of rule XXVI\16\ of
                the Standing Rules of the Senate), the place, and the
                purpose of such meeting. The Senate members of any joint
                committee of the Congress or of a subcommittee thereof shall
                cause notice to be given to the office designated by the
                Committee on Rules and Administration of each meeting of
                such joint committee or subcommittee, including the time,
                place, and purposes of such meeting. Notice under this
                subsection shall be given immediately upon scheduling a
                meeting.
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                    (c) Each committee of the Senate, and each subcommittee
                thereof, shall notify the office designated by the Committee
                on Rules and Administration immediately upon the
                cancellation of a meeting of such committee or subcommittee.
                The Senate members of any joint committee of the Congress or
                any subcommittee thereof shall cause notice to be given to
                the office designated by the Committee on Rules

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                and Administration immediately upon the cancellation of a
                meeting of such joint committee or subcommittee.
                    (d) For purposes of this section, the term ``joint
                committee of the Congress'' includes a committee of
                conference.

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          86.3       TITLE V--CONTINUING REVIEW OF THE COMMITTEE SYSTEM

                    Sec. 501. (a) The Committee on Rules and Administration,
                in consultation with the Majority Leader and the Minority
                Leader, shall review, on a continuing basis, the committee
                system of the Senate and the Standing Rules and other rules
                of the Senate related thereto.
                    (b) During the second regular session of each Congress,
                the Committee on Rules and Administration shall submit to
                the Senate a report of the results of its review under
                subsection (a) during that Congress. Such report shall
                include its recommendations (if any) for changes in the
                committee system of the Senate and the Standing Rules and
                other rules of the Senate related thereto. The Committee on
                Rules and Administration may submit, from time to time, such
                other reports and recommendations with respect to such
                committee system and rules as it deems appropriate.
                    (c) The Committee on Rules and Administration, the
                Majority Leader, and the Minority Leader may request the
                Secretary for the Majority and the Secretary for the
                Minority to provide assistance in carrying out their duties
                and responsibilities under this section.

                                        * * * * * * *

                                            [S. Res. 4, 95-1, Feb. 4, 1977.]

            87       ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND
                                       ADMINISTRATION

                    Sec. 4. The Senate Committee on Rules and
                Administration, on behalf of the Senate, may accept a gift
                if the gift does not involve any duty, burden, or condition,
                or is not made dependent upon some future performance by the
                United States Senate. The Committee on Rules and
                Administration is authorized to promulgate regulations to
                carry out this section.

                                        [S. Res. 158, 104-1, July 28, 1995.]

            88              AUTHORIZING SUIT BY SENATE COMMITTEES

                    Resolved, That hereafter any committee of the Senate is
                hereby authorized to bring suit on behalf of and in the name
                of the United States in any court of competent juris

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                diction if the committee is of the opinion that the suit is
                necessary to the adequate performance of the powers vested
                in it or the duties imposed upon it by the Constitution,
                resolution of the Senate, or other law. Such suit may be
                brought and prosecuted to final determination irrespective
                of whether or not the Senate is in session at the time the
                suit is brought or thereafter. The committee may be
                represented in the suit either by such attorneys as it may
                designate or by such officers of the Department of Justice
                as the Attorney General may designate upon the request of
                the committee. No expenditures shall be made in connection
                with any such suit in excess of the amount of funds
                available to the said committee. As used in this resolution,
                the term ``committee'' means any standing or special
                committee of the Senate, or any duly authorized subcommittee
                thereof, or the Senate members of any joint committee.

                                         [S. Jour. 572, 70-1, May 28, 1928.]

            89                 NATIONAL SECURITY WORKING GROUP

                    Sec. 21. Senate National Security Working Group
                Extension and Revision.
                            (a) Working Group Reconstitution.--
                              (1) In General.--The Senate National Security
                        Working Group (in this section referred to as the
                        ``Working Group''), authorized by Senate Resolution
                        105 of the 101st Congress, 1st session (agreed to on
                        April 13, 1989), as subsequently amended and
                        extended, is hereby reconstituted.
                              (2) Duties.--The Working Group--
                                    (A) shall serve as a forum for
                                bipartisan discussion of current national
                                security issues relating to the
                                jurisdictions of multiple committees of the
                                Senate;
                                    (B) shall conduct regular meetings and
                                maintain records of all meetings and
                                activities;
                                    (C) may authorize members to act as
                                official observers on the United States
                                delegation to any negotiations to which the
                                United States is a party regarding--
                                      (i) the reduction, limitation, or
                                control of conventional weapons, weapons of
                                mass destruction, or the means for delivery
                                of any such weapons;
                                      (ii) the reduction, limitation, or
                                control of missile defenses; or
                                      (iii) export controls;

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                                    (D) may study any issues related to
                                national security that the majority leader
                                of the Senate and the minority leader of the
                                Senate jointly determine appropriate;
                                    (E) is encouraged to consult with
                                parliamentarians and legislators of foreign
                                nations and to participate in international
                                forums and institutions regarding the
                                matters described in subparagraphs (C) and
                                (D); and
                                    (F) is not authorized to investigate
                                matters relating to espionage or
                                intelligence operations against the United
                                States, counterintelligence operations and
                                activities, or other intelligence matters
                                within the jurisdiction of the Select
                                Committee on Intelligence under Senate
                                Resolution 400 of the 94th Congress, agreed
                                to on May 19, 1976.
                              (3) Composition.--
                                    (A) In General.--The Working Group shall
                                be composed of 20 members, as follows:
                                      (i) 7 Cochairmen, who shall head the
                                Working Group, as follows:
                                        (I) 4 Members of the Senate from the
                                majority party in the Senate (in this
                                section referred to as the ``Majority
                                Cochairmen''), appointed by the majority
                                leader of the Senate.
                                        (II) 3 Members of the Senate from
                                the minority party in the Senate (in this
                                section referred to as the ``Minority
                                Cochairmen''), appointed by the minority
                                leader of the Senate.
                                      (ii) The majority leader of the Senate
                                and the minority leader of the Senate.
                                      (iii) 5 Members of the Senate from the
                                majority party in the Senate, appointed by
                                the majority leader of the Senate.
                                      (iv) 6 Members of the Senate from the
                                minority party in the Senate, appointed by
                                the minority leader of the Senate.
                                    (B) Administrative Cochairmen.--The
                                majority leader of the Senate shall
                                designate one of the Majority Cochairmen to
                                serve as the Majority Administrative
                                Cochairman, and the minority leader of the
                                Senate shall designate one of the

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                                Minority Cochairmen to serve as the Minority
                                Administrative Cochairman.
                                    (C)Publication.--Appointments and
                                designations under this paragraph shall be
                                printed in the Congressional Record.
                              (4) Vacancies.--Any vacancy in the Working
                        Group shall be filled in the same manner in which
                        the original appointment was made.
                            (b) Working Group Staff.--
                              (1) Compensation and Expenses.--(A) The
                        Working Group is authorized, from funds made
                        available under subsection (c), to employ such staff
                        in the manner and at a rate not to exceed that
                        allowed for employees of a committee of the Senate
                        under paragraph (3) of section 105(e) of the
                        Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1968 (2 U.S.C.
                        61-1(e)), and incur such expenses as may be
                        necessary or appropriate to carry out its duties and
                        functions.
                                    (B) Senate Resolution 243, 100th
                                Congress, agreed to July 1, 1987, is amended
                                in section 2(b) by striking the period at
                                the end and inserting ``at a rate not to
                                exceed that allowed for employees of a
                                committee of the Senate under paragraph (3)
                                of section 105(e) of the Legislative Branch
                                Appropriation Act, 1968 (2 U.S.C. 61-
                                1(e)).''.
                                    (C) Payments made under this subsection
                                for receptions, meals, and food-related
                                expenses shall be authorized, however, only
                                for those actual expenses incurred by the
                                Working Group in the course of conducting
                                its official duties and functions. Amounts
                                received as reimbursement for such food
                                expenses shall not be reported as income,
                                and the expenses so reimbursed shall not be
                                allowed as a deduction under title 26,
                                United States Code.
                              (2) Designation of Professional Staff.--
                                    (A) In General.--The Majority
                                Administrative Cochairman shall designate
                                one or more professional staff members for
                                each Majority Cochairman of the Working
                                Group, upon recommendations from each such
                                Majority Co-chairman. The Minority
                                Administrative Co-chairman shall designate
                                one or more professional staff members for
                                each Minority Cochairman of the Working

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                                Group, upon recommendations from each such
                                Minority Cochairman.
                                    (B) Compensation of Senate Employees.--
                                In the case of the compensation of any such
                                professional staff member who is an employee
                                of a Member of the Senate or of a committee
                                of the Senate and who has been designated to
                                perform services for the Working Group, such
                                professional staff member shall continue to
                                be paid by such Member or such Committee, as
                                the case may be, but the account from which
                                such professional staff member is paid shall
                                be reimbursed for the services of such
                                professional staff member (including agency
                                contributions when appropriate) out of funds
                                made available under subsection (c)(2).
                                    (C) Duties.--The professional staff
                                members authorized by this paragraph shall
                                serve all members of the Working Group and
                                shall carry out such other functions as
                                their respective Co-chairmen may specify.
                                    (D) Exclusive Participation in Official
                                Activities.--Except as provided in paragraph
                                (4), only designated staff of the Working
                                Group may participate in the official
                                activities of the Working Group.
                              (3) Leadership Staff.--
                                    (A) In General.--The majority leader of
                                the Senate and the minority leader of the
                                Senate may each designate 2 staff members
                                who shall be responsible to the respective
                                leader.
                                    (B) Compensation.--Funds necessary to
                                compensate leadership staff shall be
                                transferred from the funds made available
                                under subsection (c)(3) to the respective
                                account from which such designated staff
                                member is paid.
                              (4) Foreign Travel.--
                                    (A) In General.--All foreign travel of
                                the Working Group shall be authorized solely
                                by the majority leader of the Senate and the
                                minority leader of the Senate, upon the
                                recommendation of the Administrative
                                Cochairmen. Participation by Senate staff
                                members in, and access to, all official
                                activities and functions of the Working
                                Group during foreign travel, and access to
                                all classified briefings and information
                                made avail

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                                able to the Working Group during such
                                travel, shall be limited exclusively to
                                Working Group staff members with appropriate
                                clearances.
                                    (B) Authorization Required.--
                                      (i) Committee Staff.--No foreign
                                travel or other funding shall be authorized
                                by any committee of the Senate for the use
                                of staff for activities described under this
                                paragraph without the joint written
                                authorization of the majority leader of the
                                Senate and the minority leader of the Senate
                                to the chairman of such committee.
                                      (ii) Member Staff.--No foreign travel
                                or other funding shall be authorized for the
                                staff of any Member of the Senate, other
                                than Working Group staff, for activities
                                described under this paragraph unless the
                                majority leader of the Senate and the
                                minority leader of the Senate jointly so
                                authorize in writing.
                            (c) Payment of Expenses.--
                              (1) In General.--The expenses of the Working
                        Group shall be paid from the contingent fund of the
                        Senate, out of the account of Miscellaneous Items,
                        upon vouchers approved jointly by the Administrative
                        Cochairmen (except that vouchers shall not be
                        required for the disbursement of salaries of
                        employees who are paid at an annual rate).
                              (2) Amounts Available.--For any fiscal year,
                        not more than $500,000 shall be expended for staff
                        and for expenses (excepting expenses incurred for
                        foreign travel), of which not more than $100,000
                        shall be available for each Administrative
                        Cochairman and the staff of such Administrative
                        Cochairman, and not more than $60,000 shall be
                        available for each Cochairman who is not an
                        Administrative Cochairman and the staff of such
                        Cochairman.
                              (3) Leadership Staff.--In addition to the
                        amounts referred to in paragraph (2), for any fiscal
                        year, not more than $200,000 shall be expended from
                        the contingent fund of the Senate, out of the
                        account of Miscellaneous Items, for leadership staff
                        as designated in subsection (b)(3) for salaries and
                        expenses (excepting expenses incurred for foreign
                        travel).

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                            (d) Sunset.--The provisions of this section
                        shall remain in effect until December 31, 2020.

                       [S. Res. 64, 113-1, Mar. 5, 2013, as amended Further
                Continuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 2017,
                Pub. L. 114-254, Dec. 10, 2016; as amended Energy and Water,
                  Legislative Branch and Military Construction and Veterans
                Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019, Pub. L. No. 115-244, Sept.
                                                                  21, 2018.]

            90                        SPECIAL DEPUTIES

                    Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate is
                authorized and empowered from time to time to appoint such
                special deputies as he may think necessary to serve process
                or perform other duties devolved upon the Sergeant at Arms
                by law or the rules or orders of the Senate, or which may
                hereafter be devolved upon him, and in such case they shall
                be officers of the Senate; and any act done or return made
                by the deputies so appointed shall have like effect and be
                of the same validity as if performed or made by the Sergeant
                at Arms in person.

                                         [S. Jour. 47, 51-1, Dec. 17, 1889.]

            91             OFFICE OF DEPUTY PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

                    Resolved, That, effective January 5, 1977, there is
                hereby established in the United States Senate the Office of
                Deputy President Pro Tempore.
                    Sec. 2. Any Member of the Senate who has held the Office
                of President of the United States or Vice President of the
                United States shall be a Deputy President pro tempore.
                    Sec. 3. [Superseded.]
                    Sec. 4. The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper is
                authorized (a) to provide, by lease or purchase, and
                maintain an automobile for each Deputy President pro
                tempore, and (b) to employ and fix the compensation of a
                driver-messenger for each Deputy President pro tempore at
                not to exceed $18,584\17\ per annum.
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                    Sec. 5. [Superseded.]
                    Sec. 6. [Superseded.]
                    Sec. 7. Until otherwise provided by law, the Secretary
                of the Senate is authorized to pay from the contingent fund
                of the Senate such amounts as may be necessary, for salaries
                and expenses, to carry out the provisions of this
                resolution. Expenses incurred under section 4(a) of this
                resolution shall be paid upon vouchers approved by the
                Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper. Vouchers shall not be
                required for

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                the disbursement of salaries of employees paid under
                authority of this resolution.

                                          [S. Res. 17, 95-1, Jan. 10, 1977.]

                    Resolved, That (a) In addition to Senators who hold the
                office of Deputy President pro tempore under authority of S.
                Res. 17 of the 95th Congress (agreed to January 10, 1977),
                any other Member of the Senate who is designated as such by
                the Senate in a Senate resolution shall be the Deputy
                President pro tempore of the Senate, and shall hold office
                at the pleasure of the Senate during the 100th Congress.
                    (b) The Deputy President pro tempore who is designated
                as such pursuant to the authority contained in this
                resolution is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation
                of such employees as he deems appropriate: Provided, That
                the gross compensation paid to such employees shall not
                exceed $90,000 for any fiscal year.
                    (c) The following provisions shall not be applicable to
                the Deputy President pro tempore who is designated as such
                pursuant to the authority contained in this resolution:
                    (1) the provisions of S. Res. 17 of the 95th Congress
                (agreed to January 10, 1977);
                    (2) the provisions relating to compensation of a Deputy
                President pro tempore which appear in chapter VIII of Title
                I of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977, and which
                are carried in section 32a of Title 2, United States Code;
                and
                    (3) the provisions relating to staff of a Deputy
                President pro tempore which appear in chapter VIII of Title
                I of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1977, and which
                are carried in section 611 of Title 2, United States Code.
                    (d) Salaries under authority of this section shall be
                paid from any funds available in the Senate appropriation
                account for Salaries, Officers and Employees.
                    Sec. 2. (a) The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper is
                authorized to provide, by lease or purchase, and maintain an
                automobile for the former President pro tempore.
                    (b) The Secretary of the Senate is authorized to pay
                from the contingent fund of the Senate such amounts as may
                be necessary for expenses to carry out the provisions of
                this section. Such expenses shall be paid upon vouchers
                approved by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper.

                                         [S. Res. 90, 100-1, Jan. 28, 1987.]

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            92                MANAGING POLITICAL FUND ACTIVITY

                    Sec. 1701. The Majority Leader and the Minority Leader
                may each designate up to 2 employees of their respective
                leadership office staff as designees referred to in the
                second sentence of paragraph 1 of rule XLI of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate.

                [Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, Pub. L. 116-
                                                         94, Dec. 20, 2019.]

            93                 SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN EMERITUS

                Whereas the Senate has been advised of the retirement of its
                    Parliamentarian, Floyd M. Riddick, at the end of this
                    session: Therefore be it
                    Resolved, That, effective at the sine die adjournment of
                this session, as a token of the appreciation of the Senate
                for his long and faithful service, Floyd M. Riddick is
                hereby designated as Parliamentarian Emeritus of the United
                States Senate.

                [S. Jour. 1519, 93-2, Dec. 5, 1974.]

                    Resolved, That Murray Zweben be, and he is hereby,
                designated as a Parliamentarian Emeritus of the United
                States Senate.

                [S. Res. 297, 98-1, Nov. 18, 1983.]

                    Resolved, That Robert B. Dove be, and he is hereby,
                designated as a Parliamentarian Emeritus of the United
                States Senate.

                [S. Res. 32, 100-1, Jan. 6, 1987.]

                    Resolved, That Alan Scott Frumin be, and he is hereby
                designated as a Parliamentarian Emeritus of the United
                States Senate.

                [S. Res. 23, 105-1, Jan. 23, 1997.]

            94          SENATE CHIEF COUNSEL FOR EMPLOYMENT EMERITUS

                Whereas Jean M. Manning will retire from the United States
                    Senate after having served with distinction as the
                    Senate's first Chief Counsel for Employment from 1993 to
                    2014;
                Whereas Jean M. Manning has dedicated her Senate service to
                    providing legal representation, legal advice and legal
                    training to all senators and their management staff with
                    respect to all matters arising under the Government
                    Employee Rights Act of 1991, and the Congressional
                    Accountability Act of 1995;
                Whereas Jean M. Manning has represented Senate offices with
                    distinction before the federal courts;
                Whereas Jean M. Manning has upheld the high standards and
                    traditions of the Senate with abiding devotion and

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                    has performed her Senate duties in an impartial,
                    professional manner; and
                Whereas Jean M. Manning has earned the respect, affection
                    and esteem of the United States Senate: Now, therefore,
                    be it
                    Resolved, That, upon her retirement on March 19, 2014,
                as a token of the appreciation of the Senate for her long
                and faithful service, Jean M. Manning is hereby designated
                as Chief Counsel for Employment Emeritus of the United
                States Senate.

                [S. Res. 391, 113-2, Mar. 13, 2014.]

            95                    SENATE HISTORIAN EMERITUS

                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie will retire from the United States
                    Senate after serving with distinction, first as
                    Associate Historian from 1976 to 2009, and then as
                    Senate Historian from 2009 to 2015;
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has dedicated his Senate service
                    to preserving, protecting, and promoting the history of
                    the Senate and its members;
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has produced or guided production
                    of numerous publications detailing the rich
                    institutional history of the Senate;
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has been instrumental in
                    preserving, organizing, and making available to scholars
                    the vast archival holdings of the Senate and its
                    members;
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has assisted in the Senate's
                    commemoration of events of historical significance and
                    in the development of exhibitions and educational
                    programs on the history of the Senate and the Capitol;
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has guided the Senate's
                    comprehensive Oral History Project to capture and
                    preserve the institutional memory of Senators, Senate
                    officers, and Senate staff;
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has upheld the high standards and
                    traditions of the Senate, and has performed his duties
                    in a professional and nonpartisan manner; and
                Whereas Donald A. Ritchie has earned the respect and esteem
                    of the United States Senate; Now, therefore, be it
                    Resolved, That, effective June 1, 2015, as a token of
                the appreciation of the Senate for his long and faithful
                service,

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                Donald A. Ritchie is hereby designated as Historian Emeritus
                of the United States Senate.

                [S. Res. 147, 114-1, Apr. 22, 2015.]

            96                     SENATE CURATOR EMERITUS

                Whereas Diane K. Skvarla will retire from the Senate after
                    18 years as Senate Curator, and more than 30 years of
                    Senate service;
                Whereas she has diligently cared for and greatly enhanced
                    the material history and historic spaces of the Senate
                    as a legacy for future generations;
                Whereas she has educated and inspired the Senate community,
                    visitors to the Capitol, and the people of the United
                    States with numerous exhibits, publications, and
                    educational programs;
                Whereas her vision and leadership resulted in significant
                    improvements to the restoration and historic
                    interpretation of the Old Senate Chamber and other
                    historic rooms of the Capitol; Whereas she has caused to
                    be published significant catalogues of the fine and
                    graphic art collections of the Senate for the benefit of
                    the people of the United States;
                Whereas she has upheld the highest standards and traditions
                    of the Senate with unwavering dedication; and
                Whereas she has earned the respect, affection, and esteem of
                    the Senate: Now, therefore, be it
                    Resolved, That, effective January 27, 2014, as a token
                of the appreciation of the Senate for her long and faithful
                service, Diane K. Skvarla is hereby designated as Curator
                Emeritus of the United States Senate.

                                        [S. Res. 338, 113-2, Jan. 27, 2014.]

            97                SENATE SECURITY DIRECTOR EMERITUS

                Whereas Michael P. DiSilvestro will retire from the United
                    States Senate after serving for over 30 years as the
                    first Director of the Office of Senate Security, and in
                    the Senate for over 37 years total, including numerous
                    postponements of his retirement when the needs of the
                    Senate prevailed upon him;
                Whereas his career has been dedicated to protecting and
                    facilitating the Senate's ability to review, discuss,
                    and act upon the most sensitive national security
                    information in our Government;
                Whereas he represented the Senate boldly and effectively to
                    the executive branch of Government as it delivered

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                    critical documents and briefings for the consideration
                    and oversight of the Senate;
                Whereas his selfless dedication to the Senate's
                    constitutional function has made him a leader in
                    planning and executing continuity programs for the
                    Senate and Congress as a whole;
                Whereas, at great peril, he remained on the front line of
                    service to the Senate in times of heinous attacks on
                    Senate offices;
                Whereas he has upheld the highest standards and traditions
                    of the Senate as a universally trusted voice of
                    nonpartisan professionalism and expertise; and
                Whereas he has earned the respect and esteem of the Senate:
                    Now, therefore, be it
                    Resolved, That, effective May 23, 2020, as a token of
                the appreciation of the Senate for his long and faithful
                service, Michael P. DiSilvestro is hereby designated as
                Director Emeritus of Senate Security of the United States
                Senate.

                                         [S. Res. 582, 116-2, May 19, 2020.]

            98          PERSONS NOT FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES OF SENATE\18\

                    Resolved, That hereafter, standing or select committees
                employing the services of persons who are not full-time
                employees of the Senate or any committee thereof shall
                submit monthly reports to the Senate (or to the Secretary
                during a recess or adjournment) showing (1) the name and
                address of any such person; (2) the name and address of the
                department or organization by whom his salary is paid; and
                (3) the annual rate of compensation in each case.
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                Standing Rules of the Senate.
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                                        [S. Jour. 407, 78-2, Aug. 23, 1944.]

            99                          SENATE PAGES

                    Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Sergeant at
                Arms to classify the pages of the Senate, so that at the
                close of the present and each succeeding Congress, one-half
                the number shall be removed * * *.

                                        [S. Jour. 514, 33-1, July 17, 1854.]

                    Resolved, That until otherwise hereafter provided for by
                law, there shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the
                Senate such amounts as may be necessary to enable the
                Secretary of the Senate to furnish educational services and
                related items for Senate Pages in accordance with this
                resolution.

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                    Sec. 2. The Senate Page program shall be administered by
                the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate and the
                Secretaries for the majority and minority of the Senate. All
                policy decisions regarding the operation of the Senate Page
                program shall be made by the Senate management board, with
                the concurrence of the majority and minority leaders of the
                Senate.
                    Sec. 3. In order to provide educational services and
                related items for Senate Pages, the Secretary of the Senate
                is authorized to enter into a contract, agreement, or other
                arrangement with the Board of Education of the District of
                Columbia, or to provide such educational services and items
                in such other manner as he may deem appropriate.
                    Sec. 4. The educational services under the Senate Page
                program shall consist of an academic year comprising two
                terms, and a Page serving in such program shall be in the
                eleventh grade.
                    Sec. 5. The resolution shall take effect as of the date
                of its approval.

                [S. Res. 184, 98-1, July 29, 1983.]

                    Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate is authorized
                to withhold from the salary of each Senate page who resides
                in the page residence hall an amount equal to the charge
                imposed for lodging, meals, and related services, furnished
                to such page in such hall. The amounts so withheld shall be
                transferred by the Secretary of the Senate to the Clerk of
                the House of Representatives for deposit by such Clerk in
                the revolving fund, within the contingent fund of the House
                of Representatives, for the page residence hall and page
                meal plan, as established by H. Res. 64, 98th Congress.

                [S. Res. 78, 98-1, Mar. 2, 1983.]

           100  CLOSING THE OFFICE OF A SENATOR OR SENATE LEADER WHO DIES OR
                                           RESIGNS

                    Resolved, That (a)(1) In the case of the death or
                resignation of a Senator during his term of office, the
                employees in the office of such Senator who are on the
                Senate payroll on the date of such death or resignation
                shall be continued on such payroll at their respective
                salaries, unless adjusted by the Secretary of the Senate
                with the approval of the Senate Committee on Rules and
                Administration, for a period not to exceed sixty days, or
                such greater number of days as may, in any particular case,
                be established by the Senate Committee on Rules and
                Administration as being required to complete the closing of
                the office of such Sen

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                ator. Such employees so continued on the payroll of the
                Senate shall, while so continued, perform their duties under
                the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, and such
                Secretary shall remove from such payroll any such employees
                who are not attending to the duties for which their services
                are continued.
                    (2) If an employee of a Senator continued on the Senate
                payroll pursuant to paragraph (1) resigns or is terminated
                during the period required to complete the closing of the
                office of such Senator, the Secretary of the Senate may
                replace such employee by appointing another individual. Any
                individual appointed as a replacement under the authority of
                the preceding sentence shall be subject to the same terms of
                employment, except for salary, as the employee such
                individual replaces.
                    (b) In the case of the death or resignation of a Senator
                while holding the office of President pro tempore, Deputy
                President pro tempore, President pro tempore emeritus,
                Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Majority Whip, Minority
                Whip, Secretary of the Conference of the Majority, Secretary
                of the Conference of the Minority, of the Senate, the
                Chairman of the Conference of the Majority, the Chairman of
                the Conference of the Minority, the Chairman of the Majority
                Policy Committee, or the Chairman of the Minority Policy
                Committee, the employees of such office who are on the
                payroll of the Senate on the date of such death or
                resignation shall be continued on the Senate payroll in like
                manner and under the same conditions as are employees in the
                office of such Senator under subsection (a) of this section.
                    (c) No employee of the Senate who is continued on the
                payroll of the Senate under the preceding provisions of this
                section on account of the death or resignation of a Senator
                shall be continued on such payroll after the date of the
                expiration of the term of office of such Senator as a
                Senator, or, such later date as may, in any particular case,
                be established by the Senate Committee on Rules and
                Administration as being required to complete the closing of
                the office of such Senator.
                    (d) Payment of salaries of employees who are continued
                on the Senate payroll under authority of this section, and
                payment of agency contributions with respect to such
                salaries, shall be made from the account for Miscellaneous
                Items within the contingent fund of the Senate.

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                    (e) During any period for which the employees of the
                office of a Senator, who has died or resigned, are continued
                on the Senate payroll under the first section of this
                resolution, official office expenses which are necessary in
                closing such Senator's office (or offices in case of a
                Senator who dies or resigns while holding an office referred
                to in subsection (b) of this section) shall be made from the
                account for Miscellaneous Items within the contingent fund
                of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the Secretary of the
                Senate; except that the aggregate of such expenses shall not
                exceed an amount equal to one-tenth of such Senator's
                official office expense account for the year in which he
                died or resigned.
                    (f) Duties to be performed by the Secretary of the
                Senate under this section and under section 2 of this
                resolution shall be performed under the direction of the
                Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
                    Sec. 2. In the case of the death of any Senator, the
                Secretary of the Senate may, with respect to any item of
                expense for which payment had been authorized to be made
                from such Senator's official office expense account, certify
                for such deceased Senator for any sum already obligated but
                not certified to at the time of such Senator's death for
                payment to the person or persons designated as entitled to
                such payment by such Secretary.
                    Sec. 3. (a) The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the
                Senate shall make such arrangements as may be necessary, in
                accordance with such regulations as the Senate Committee on
                Rules and Administration may prescribe, for:
                            (1) the funeral of a deceased Senator; and
                            (2) any committee appointed to attend the
                        funeral of a deceased Senator.
                    (b) Expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of
                subsection (a) of this section shall be paid from the
                account for Miscellaneous Items within the contingent fund
                of the Senate, on vouchers approved by the Sergeant at Arms
                and Doorkeeper of the Senate.
                    Sec. 4. The following Senate resolutions are repealed:
                S. Res. 5, 82d Congress (agreed to April 11, 1951), and S.
                Res. 354, 95th Congress (agreed to January 20, 1978).
                    Sec. 5. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this
                section, the provisions of this resolution shall take effect
                upon the date it is agreed to by the Senate.

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                    (b) The first section of this resolution shall take
                effect on the date that there is hereafter enacted a
                provision of law which (1) makes inapplicable to any
                employee of the Senate the provisions of the third paragraph
                under the heading ``Clerical assistance to Senators'' of the
                first section of the Legislative Appropriation Act for the
                fiscal year ending June 30, 1928 (2 U.S.C. 92a), and (2)
                repeals (A) the last paragraph under the heading ``Clerical
                assistance to Senators'' of the first section of the
                Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1944 (2 U.S.C. 92e),
                (B) the last paragraph under the heading ``Clerical
                assistance to Senators'' of the first section of the
                Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1945 (2 U.S.C. 92e),
                (C) the next-to-last paragraph under the heading ``Clerical
                assistance to Senators'' of the first section of the
                Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1946 (2 U.S.C. 92e),
                and (D) the next-to-last paragraph under the heading
                ``Clerical assistance to Senators'' of the first section of
                the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1947 (2 U.S.C.
                92e).
                    (c) After the date this resolution is agreed to, the
                Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
                shall make no further certifications under authority of
                section 506(g) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973
                (2 U.S.C. 58(g)).

                 [S. Res. 458, 98-2, Oct. 4, 1984; S. Res. 173, 100-1, Mar.
                  24, 1987, S. Res. 478, 108-2, Nov. 19, 2004; S. Res. 238,
                                                      110-1, June 18, 2007.]

           101     PAY FOR CERTAIN DISPLACED SENATE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

                    Sec. 6. (a) For purposes of this section:
                            (1) The term ``committee'' means a standing,
                        select or special committee, or commission of the
                        Senate, or a joint committee of the Congress whose
                        funds are disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate.
                            (2) The terms ``Chairman'' and Ranking Minority
                        Member'' means the Chairman, Vice Chairman,
                        Cochairman and Ranking Minority Member of a
                        committee.
                            (3) The term ``eligible staff member'' means an
                        individual--
                                    (A) who was--
                                      (i) an employee of a committee or
                                subcommittee thereof or a Senate leadership
                                office described in subsection (b) of the
                                first section of this resolution,

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                                      (ii) an employee in an office of a
                                Senator on the expiration of the term of
                                office of such Senator as a Senator, if the
                                Senator is not serving as a Senator for the
                                next term of office and was a candidate in
                                the general election for such next term,
                                      (iii) an employee in an office of a
                                Senator on the expiration of the term of
                                office of such Senator as a Senator, if the
                                Senator was a candidate in the general
                                election for the next term of office and the
                                office is not filled at the commencement of
                                that next term, or
                                      (iv) an employee or officer (including
                                the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the
                                Senate and the Secretary of the Senate) in
                                the office of--
                                        (I) the Sergeant at Arms and
                                Doorkeeper of the Senate, or
                                        (II) the Secretary of the Senate,
                                    (B) whose employment described in
                                subparagraph (A) was at least 183 days
                                (whether or not service was continuous)
                                before the date of termination of employment
                                described in paragraph (4), and
                                    (C) whose pay is disbursed by the
                                Secretary of the Senate.
                    The term ``eligible staff member'' shall not include an
                employee to whom the first section of this resolution
                applies.
                            (4) The term ``displaced staff member'' means an
                        eligible staff member--
                                    (A) whose service as an employee of the
                                Senate is terminated solely and directly as
                                a result of--
                                      (i) in the case of employment
                                described in paragraph (3)(A)(i), a change
                                in the individual occupying the position of
                                Chairman or Ranking Minority Member of a
                                committee or in the individual occupying the
                                Senate leadership office,
                                      (ii) in the case of employment
                                described in clause (ii) or (iii) of
                                paragraph (3)(A), the expiration of the term
                                of office of the Senator,
                                      (iii) in the case of an individual
                                described in paragraph (3)(A)(iv)(I), a
                                change in the individual occupying the
                                position of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper
                                of the Senate, or

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                                      (iv) in the case of an individual
                                described in paragraph (3)(A)(iv)(II), a
                                change in the individual occupying the
                                position of Secretary of the Senate, and
                                    (B) who is certified, not later than 60
                                days after the date of the change for an
                                eligible staff member described in clause
                                (i) of paragraph (3)(A), after the
                                expiration of the term of office of the
                                supervising Senator for an eligible staff
                                member described in clause (ii) or (iii) of
                                paragraph (3)(A), or after the change in the
                                individual occupying the position described
                                in clause (iii) or (iv) of subparagraph (A),
                                as applicable, as a displaced staff member
                                by the Chairman or Ranking Minority Member
                                of the committee, the Senator occupying the
                                Senate leadership office, the Senator whose
                                term is expiring, the Sergeant at Arms and
                                Doorkeeper of the Senate, or the Secretary
                                of the Senate, whichever is applicable, to
                                the Secretary of the Senate.
                    (b) The Secretary of the Senate shall notify the
                Committee on Rules and Administration of the name of each
                displaced staff member.
                    (c)(1) Under regulations prescribed by the Committee on
                Rules and Administration each displaced staff member shall,
                upon application to the Secretary of the Senate and approval
                by the Committee on Rules and Administration, continue to be
                paid at their respective salaries for a period not to
                exceed--
                                    (A) in the case of a displaced staff
                                member described in clause (i), (ii), or
                                (iv) of subsection (a)(3)(A), 60 days
                                following the staff member's date of
                                termination or until the staff member
                                becomes otherwise gainfully employed,
                                whichever is earlier, and
                                    (B) in the case of a displaced staff
                                member described in clause (iii) of
                                subsection (a)(3)(A), the earliest of--
                                      (i) 60 days following the staff
                                member's date of termination;
                                      (ii) the date the staff member becomes
                                otherwise gainfully employed; or
                                      (iii) if the supervising Senator
                                qualifies for the next term of office as a
                                Senator not later

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                                than 60 days after the staff member's date
                                of termination, the date of such
                                qualification.
                            (2) A statement in writing by any such displaced
                        staff member that he was not gainfully employed
                        during such period or the portion thereof for which
                        payment is claimed shall be accepted as prima facie
                        evidence that he was not so employed.
                    (d)(1) Each displaced staff member described in clause
                (iii) of subsection (a)(3)(A) may, with the approval,
                direction, and supervision of the Secretary of the Senate,
                perform limited duties such as archiving and transferring
                case files.
                            (2) With respect to a Senator who was a
                        candidate in the general election for the next term
                        of office and for which the office is not filled at
                        the commencement of that next term, during the 60-
                        day period beginning on the first day of that next
                        term of office, the official office and State office
                        expenses relating to--
                                    (A) archiving and transferring case
                                files of the Senator, with prior approval by
                                and upon vouchers approved and obligated by
                                the Secretary of the Senate; and
                                    (B) rent for office space upon vouchers
                                approved and obligated by the Sergeant at
                                Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, shall be
                                paid from the account for Miscellaneous
                                Items within the contingent fund of the
                                Senate.
                    (e) Funds necessary to carry out the provisions of this
                section shall be available as set forth in section 1(d).

                  [S. Res. 9, 103-1, Jan. 7, 1993; S. Res. 478, 108-2, Nov.
                   19, 2004; S. Res. 805, 116-2; Dec. 17, 2020; S. Res. 30,
                    117-1, Feb. 3, 2021; S. Res. 108, 117-1, Mar. 11, 2021.]

           102      PAY OF CLERICAL AND OTHER ASSISTANTS AS AFFECTED BY
                        TERMINATION OF SERVICE OF APPOINTED SENATORS

                    Resolved, That in any case in which (1) a Senator is
                appointed to fill any portion of an unexpired term, (2) an
                election is thereafter held to fill the remainder of such
                unexpired term, and (3) the Senator so appointed is not a
                candidate or if a candidate is not elected at such election,
                his clerical and other assistants on the payroll of the
                Senate on the date of termination of his service shall be
                continued on such roll at their respective salaries until
                the expiration of thirty days following such date or until
                they become otherwise gainfully employed, whichever is
                earlier,

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                such sums to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate.
                A statement in writing by any such employee that he was not
                gainfully employed during such period or the portion thereof
                for which payment is claimed shall be accepted as prima
                facie evidence that he was not so employed. The provisions
                of this resolution shall not apply to an employee of any
                such Senator if on or before the date of termination of his
                service he notifies the Disbursing Office of the Senate in
                writing that he does not wish the provisions of this
                resolution to apply to such employee.

                [S. Jour. 421, 86-2, June 28, 1960.]

           103     LEAVE WITHOUT PAY STATUS FOR CERTAIN SENATE EMPLOYEES
                        PERFORMING SERVICE IN THE UNIFORMED SERVICES

                    Sec. 1. Leave without pay status for certain Senate
                employees performing service in the uniformed services.
                    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
                            (1) the terms ``employee'' and ``Federal
                        executive agency'' have the meanings given those
                        terms under section 4303 (3) and (5) of title 38,
                        United States Code, respectively; and
                            (2) the term ``employee of the Senate'' means
                        any employee whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary
                        of the Senate, except that the term does not include
                        a member of the Capitol Police or a civilian
                        employee of the Capitol Police.
                    (b) Leave without pay status--An employee of the Senate
                who is deemed to be on furlough or leave of absence under
                section 4316(b)(1)(A) of title 38, United States Code, by
                reason of service in the uniformed services--
                            (1) may be placed in a leave without pay status
                        while so on furlough or leave of absence; and
                            (2) while placed in that status, shall be
                        treated--
                                    (A) subject to subparagraph (B), as an
                                employee of a Federal executive agency in a
                                leave without pay status for purposes of
                                chapters 83, 84, 87, and 89 of title 5,
                                United States Code; and
                                    (B) as a Congressional employee for
                                purposes of those chapters.
                    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect on
                October 1, 2001, and apply to fiscal year 2002 and each
                fiscal year thereafter.

                [S. Res. 193, 107-1, Dec. 19, 2001.]

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           104             LOYALTY CHECKS ON SENATE EMPLOYEES\19\

                    Resolved, That hereafter when any person is appointed as
                an employee of any committee of the Senate, of any Senator,
                or of any office of the Senate the committee, Senator, or
                officer having authority to make such appointment shall
                transmit the name of such person to the Federal Bureau of
                Investigation, together with a request that such committee,
                Senator, or officer be informed as to any derogatory and
                rebutting information in the possession of such agency
                concerning the loyalty and reliability for security purposes
                of such person, and in any case in which such derogatory
                information is revealed such committee, Senator, or officer
                shall make or cause to be made such further investigation as
                shall have been considered necessary to determine the
                loyalty and reliability for security purposes of such
                person.
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                    \19\This resolution has not been generally implemented
                since the Federal Bureau of Investigation took the position
                that it was not authorized to divulge the information
                referred to in the resolution. However, the Bureau and the
                Department of Defense cooperate with Senate committees and
                offices which request security checks of specific employees
                when it is considered necessary by a committee chairman or
                officer of the Senate.
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                    Every such committee, Senator, and officer shall
                promptly transmit to the Federal Bureau of Investigation a
                list of the names of the incumbent employees of such
                committee, Senator, or officer together with a request that
                such committee, Senator, or officer be informed of any
                derogatory and rebutting information contained in the files
                of such agency concerning the loyalty and reliability for
                security purposes of such employee.

                [S. Jour. 144, 83-1, Mar. 6, 1953.]

           105               EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES\20\

                Whereas the Senate supports the principle that each
                    individual is entitled to the equal protection of the
                    laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Article of Amendment
                    to the Constitution of the United States; and
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                    \20\See also rule XLII of the Standing Rules of the
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                Whereas the Senate as an employer is not compelled by law to
                    provide to its employees the protections against
                    discrimination established in the Equal Pay Act of 1963
                    or Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Now,
                    therefore, be it
                    Resolved, That (a) no Member, officer, or employee of
                the Senate shall, with respect to employment by the Senate
                or any office thereof--

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                            (1) fail or refuse to hire an individual,
                            (2) discharge an individual, or
                            (3) otherwise discriminate against an individual
                        with respect to promotion, compensation, or terms,
                        conditions, or privileges of employment,
                on the basis of such individual's race, color, religion,
                sex, national origin or state of handicap.
                    (b) Each Member, officer, and employee of the Senate
                shall encourage the hiring of women and members of minority
                groups at all levels of employment on the staffs of Members,
                officers, and committees of the Senate.

                                         [S. Res. 534, 94-2, Sept. 8, 1976.]

           106      MANDATING ANTI-HARASSMENT TRAINING FOR SENATORS AND
                 OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND INTERNS OF, AND DETAILEES TO THE
                                           SENATE

                    Resolved,
                            SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
                                    This resolution may be cited as the
                                ``Senate Anti-Harassment Training Resolution
                                of 2017''.
                            Sec. 2. Definitions.
                                    In this resolution--
                                    (1) the term ``covered office'' means an
                                office, including a joint commission or
                                joint committee, employing Senate employees;
                                    (2) the term ``covered position'' means
                                a position as--
                                      (A) a Senate employee that is not a
                                position as a Senate manager;
                                      (B) an intern or fellow in a covered
                                office--
                                        (i) without regard to whether the
                                intern or fellow receives compensation; and
                                        (ii) if the intern or fellow does
                                receive compensation, without regard to the
                                source of compensation; or
                                      (C) a detailee in a covered office,
                                without regard to whether the service is on
                                a reimbursable basis;
                                    (3) the term ``head of a covered
                                office'' means--
                                      (A) the Senator, officer, or Senate
                                manager having final authority to appoint,
                                hire, discharge, and set the terms,
                                conditions, or privileges of the employment
                                of the Senate employees employed by a
                                covered office; or

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                                      (B) in the case of a covered office
                                that is a joint committee or joint
                                commission, the Senator from the majority
                                party of the Senate who--
                                        (i) is a member of, or has authority
                                over, the committee or commission; and
                                        (ii)(I) serves in the highest
                                leadership role in the committee or
                                commission; or
                                        (II) if there is no such leadership
                                role for a Senator on the committee or
                                commission, is the most senior Senator on
                                the committee or commission;

                                    (4) the term ``officer'' means an
                                elected or appointed officer of the Senate;
                                    (5) the term ``Senate employee'' means
                                an employee whose pay is disbursed by the
                                Secretary of the Senate, without regard to
                                the term of the appointment; and
                                    (6) the term ``Senate manager'' means a
                                Senate employee empowered to effect a
                                significant change in the employment status
                                of another Senate employee, such as hiring,
                                firing, failing to promote, reassignment
                                with significantly different
                                responsibilities, or a decision causing a
                                change in benefits.
                            Sec. 3. Anti-Harassment Training.
                            (a) Senators, Officers, and Senate Managers.--
                        Each head of a covered office and Senate manager
                        shall complete training that addresses the various
                        forms of workplace harassment, including sexual
                        harassment, and related intimidation and reprisal
                        that are prohibited under the Congressional
                        Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.)
                        and their role in recognizing and responding to
                        harassment and harassment complaints.
                            (b) Other Senate Staff.--Any individual serving
                        in a covered position shall complete training that
                        addresses the various forms of workplace harassment,
                        including sexual harassment, and related
                        intimidation and reprisal that are prohibited under
                        the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2
                        U.S.C. 1301 et seq.).
                            (c) Ensuring Access.--The head of a covered
                        office shall ensure that each individual serving in
                        a covered

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                        position or as a Senate manager in the covered
                        office has access to the training required under
                        this section.
                            Sec. 4. Timing.
                            (a) Initial Training.--
                                    (1) In General.--The training required
                                under section 3 shall be completed--
                                      (A) for an individual elected,
                                appointed, or assigned to a position as a
                                Senator, officer, or Senate manager or to a
                                covered position after the date of adoption
                                of this resolution who was not serving in
                                the same covered office as a Senator,
                                officer, or Senate manager or in a covered
                                position immediately before being so
                                elected, appointed, or assigned, not later
                                than 60 days after the date on which the
                                individual assumes the position; and
                                      (B) except as provided in paragraph
                                (2), for an individual serving in a position
                                as a Senator, officer, or Senate manager or
                                in a covered position on the date of
                                adoption of this resolution, not later than
                                60 days after such date of adoption.
                                    (2) Individuals Receiving Recent
                                Training.--An individual serving as a
                                Senator, officer, or Senate manager or in a
                                covered position on the date of adoption of
                                this resolution who completed training that
                                addresses the various forms of workplace
                                harassment, including sexual harassment, and
                                related intimidation and reprisal that are
                                prohibited under the Congressional
                                Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301 et
                                seq.) during the period beginning on the
                                first day of the 115th Congress and ending
                                on such date of adoption shall be deemed to
                                have completed training under paragraph
                                (1)(B).
                            (b) Periodic Training.--An individual serving in
                        a position as a Senator, officer, or Senate manager
                        or in a covered position shall complete the training
                        required under section 3 at least once during each
                        Congress beginning after the Congress during which
                        the individual completes the initial training in
                        accordance with subsection 9 (a).
                            Sec. 5. Certification.
                            (a) In General.--Not later than the last day of
                        each Congress, each covered office shall submit to
                        the Secretary of the Senate a certification
                        indicating

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                        whether each Senator, officer, and Senate manager
                        serving in a position in the covered office and each
                        individual serving in a covered position in the
                        covered office has completed the training
                        requirements under this resolution during that
                        Congress.
                            (b) Publication.--Not later than 30 days after
                        the first day of each Congress, the Secretary of the
                        Senate shall publish each certification submitted to
                        the Secretary of the Senate under subsection (a)
                        with respect to the previous Congress on the public
                        website of the Secretary of the Senate.
                            Sec. 6. Regulations or Guidance.
                            The Committee on Rules and Administration of the
                        Senate is authorized to issue such regulations or
                        guidance as it may determine necessary to carry out
                        this resolution.

                [S. Res. 330, 115-1, Nov. 9, 2017.]

           107    SFC SEAN COOLEY AND SPC CHRISTOPHER HORTON CONGRESSIONAL
                             GOLD STAR FAMILY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

                    Resolved,
                    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
                            (1) the term ``eligible individual'' means an
                        individual who meets the eligibility criteria
                        established under subsection (d)(1)(A);
                            (2) the term ``Program'' means the SFC Sean
                        Cooley and SPC Christopher Horton Congressional Gold
                        Star Family Fellowship Program established under
                        subsection (b); and
                            (3) the term ``Sergeant at Arms'' means the
                        Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate.
                    (b) Establishment.--Not later than December 31, 2023,
                and subject to the availability of appropriations, the
                Sergeant at Arms shall establish a fellowship program to be
                known as the SFC Sean Cooley and SPC Christopher Horton
                Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program for family
                members of members of the Armed Forces who die in the line
                of duty or of veterans who die of service-connected
                injuries.
                    (c) Fellowships.--Under the Program, an eligible
                individual may serve a 24-month fellowship in the office of
                a Senator.
                    (d) Administration.--
                            (1) In General.--The Committee on Rules and
                        Administration of the Senate shall promulgate regula

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                        tions for the administration of the Program,
                        including establishing the criteria for--
                                    (A) eligibility to participate in a
                                fellowship under the Program; and
                                    (B) a method of prioritizing the
                                assignment of fellowships to the offices of
                                Senators under the Program, if the amount
                                made available to carry out the Program for
                                a fiscal year is not enough to provide
                                fellowships in all offices requesting to
                                participate in the Program for such fiscal
                                year.
                            (2) Placement.--An eligible individual may serve
                        in a fellowship under the Program at the office of a
                        Senator in the District of Columbia or at a State
                        office of the Senator.
                            (3) Authority for Agreement.--The Sergeant at
                        Arms may enter into an agreement with the Chief
                        Administrative Officer of the House of
                        Representatives for the joint operation of the
                        Program, the Congressional Gold Star Family
                        Fellowship Program established under House
                        Resolution 107, 116th Congress, agreed to October
                        29, 2019, and the Wounded Warrior Fellowship Program
                        carried out by the Chief Administrative Officer.
                    (e) Exclusion of Appointees for Purposes of Compensation
                Limits.--The compensation paid to any eligible individual
                serving in a fellowship under the Program in the office of a
                Senator shall not be included in the determination of the
                aggregate gross compensation for employees employed by the
                Senator under section 105(d)(1) of the Legislative Branch
                Appropriation Act, 1968 (20 U.S.C. 4575(d)(1)).

                [S. Res. 442, 117-1, Nov. 4, 2021.]

           108               MCCAIN-MANSFIELD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

                    Resolved,
                    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
                            (1) the term ``eligible individual'' means an
                        individual who meets the eligibility criteria
                        established under subsection (d)(1)(A);
                            (2) the term ``Program'' means the McCain-
                        Mansfield Fellowship Program established under
                        subsection (b); and
                            (3) the term ``Sergeant at Arms'' means the
                        Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate.
                    (b) Establishment.--Not later than December 31, 2023,
                and subject to the availability of appropriations, the Ser

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                geant at Arms shall establish a fellowship program to be
                known as the McCain-Mansfield Fellowship Program for wounded
                or disabled veterans.
                    (c) Fellowships.--Under the Program, an eligible
                individual may serve a 24-month fellowship in the office of
                a Senator.
                    (d) Administration.--
                                    (1) In General.--The Committee on Rules
                                and Administration of the Senate shall
                                promulgate regulations for the
                                administration of the Program, including
                                establishing the criteria for--
                                      (A) eligibility to participate in a
                                fellowship under the Program; and
                                      (B) a method of prioritizing the
                                assignment of fellowships to the offices of
                                Senators under the Program, if the amount
                                made available to carry out the Program for
                                a fiscal year is not enough to provide
                                fellowships in all offices requesting to
                                participate in the Program for such fiscal
                                year.
                                    (2) Placement.--An eligible individual
                                may serve in a fellowship under the Program
                                at the office of a Senator in the District
                                of Columbia or at a State office of the
                                Senator.
                                    (3) Authority for Agreement.--The
                                Sergeant at Arms may enter into an agreement
                                with the Chief Administrative Officer of the
                                House of Representatives for the joint
                                operation of the Program, the Congressional
                                Gold Star Family Fellowship Program
                                established under House Resolution 107,
                                116th Congress, agreed to October 29, 2019,
                                and the Wounded Warrior Fellowship Program
                                carried out by the Chief Administrative
                                Officer.
                    (e) Exclusion of Appointees for Purposes of Compensation
                Limits.--The compensation paid to any eligible individual
                serving in a fellowship under the Program in the office of a
                Senator shall not be included in the determination of the
                aggregate gross compensation for employees employed by the
                Senator under section 105(d)(1) of the Legislative Branch
                Appropriation Act, 1968 (20 U.S.C. 4575(d)(1)).

                [S. Res. 443, 117-1, Nov. 4, 2021.]

           109                      SENATE YOUTH PROGRAM

                Whereas the continued vitality of our Republic depends, in
                    part, on the intelligent understanding of our political

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                    processes and the functioning of our National Government
                    by the citizens of the United States; and
                Whereas the durability of a constitutional democracy is
                    dependent upon alert, talented, vigorous competition for
                    political leadership; and
                Whereas individual Senators have cooperated with various
                    private and university undergraduate and graduate
                    fellowship and internship programs relating to the work
                    of Congress; and
                Whereas, in the high schools of the United States, there
                    exists among students who have been elected to student-
                    body offices in their sophomore, junior, or senior year
                    a potential reservoir of young citizens who are
                    experiencing their first responsibilities of service to
                    a constituency and who should be encouraged to deepen
                    their interest in and understanding of their country's
                    political processes: Now, therefore, be it

                    Resolved, That the Senate hereby expresses its
                willingness to cooperate in a nationwide competitive high
                school Senate youth program which would give several
                representative high school students from each State a short
                indoctrination into the operation of the United States
                Senate and the Federal Government generally, if such a
                program can be satisfactorily arranged and completely
                supported by private funds with no expense to the Federal
                Government.
                    Sec. 2. The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
                shall investigate the possibility of establishing such a
                program and, if the committee determines such a program is
                possible and advisable, it shall make the necessary
                arrangements to establish the program.
                    Sec. 3. For the purpose of this resolution, the term
                ``State'' includes the Department of Defense education
                system for dependents in overseas areas.

                  [S. Res. 324, 87-2, May 17, 1962; S. Res. 146, 97-1, July
                                                                  30, 1981.]

                Whereas by S. Res. 324 of the Eighty-seventh Congress,
                    agreed to May 17, 1962, the Senate expressed its
                    willingness to cooperate in a nationwide competitive
                    Senate youth program supported by private funds, which
                    would give representative high school students from each
                    State a short indoctrination into the operation of the
                    United States Senate and the Federal Government
                    generally, and authorized the Senate Committee on Rules
                    and Administration, if it should find such a program
                    possible

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                    and advisable, to make the necessary arrangements
                    therefor; and
                Whereas the Committee on Rules and Administration, after
                    appropriate investigation, having determined such a
                    program to be not only possible but highly desirable,
                    authorized its establishment and with the support of the
                    leaders and other Members of the Senate and the
                    cooperation of certain private institutions made the
                    necessary arrangements therefor; and
                Whereas, pursuant to such arrangements, and with the
                    cooperation of and participation by the offices of every
                    Member of the Senate and the Vice President, one hundred
                    and two student leaders representing all States of the
                    Union and the District of Columbia were privileged to
                    spend the period from January 28, 1963, through February
                    2, 1963, in the Nation's Capitol, thereby broadening
                    their knowledge and understanding of Congress and the
                    legislative process and stimulating their appreciation
                    of the importance of a freely elected legislature in the
                    perpetuation of our democratic system of government; and
                Whereas by S. Res. 147 of the Eighty-eighth Congress, agreed
                    to May 27, 1963, another group of student leaders from
                    throughout the United States spent approximately one
                    week in the Nation's Capitol, during January 1964; and
                Whereas it is the consensus of all who participated that the
                    above two programs were unqualifiedly successful, and in
                    all respects worthy and deserving of continuance; and
                Whereas the private foundation which financed the initial
                    programs has graciously offered to support a similar
                    program during the year ahead: Now, therefore, be it
                    Resolved, That, until otherwise directed by the Senate
                the Senate youth program authorized by S. Res. 324 of the
                Eighty-seventh Congress, agreed to May 17, 1962, and
                extended by S. Res. 147, agreed to May 27, 1963, may be
                continued at the discretion of and under such conditions as
                may be determined by the Committee on Rules and
                Administration.

                [S. Jour. 196, 88-2, Apr. 16, 1964.]

           110                SENIOR CITIZEN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

                    Resolved, That (a) each Senator is authorized to employ
                for not more than fourteen consecutive days each year dur

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                ing the month of May a senior citizen intern or interns to
                serve in his office in Washington, District of Columbia.
                    (b) To be eligible to serve as a senior citizen intern
                an individual shall certify to the Secretary of the Senate
                that he has attained the age of sixty years, is a bona fide
                resident of the State of his employing Senator, and is a
                citizen of the United States.
                    (c)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), for purposes
                of payment of compensation and travel expenses, senior
                citizen interns employed pursuant to this resolution shall
                be subject to the same limitations and restrictions
                applicable to Senators and Senate employees.
                    (2) An outside vendor may provide for the travel and per
                diem expenses only of senior citizen interns in the Senior
                Citizen Intern Program subject to approval by the Committee
                on Rules and Administration. Documentation provided by such
                vendor may be accepted as official travel expense
                documentation for the purpose of reimbursing interns in the
                program for travel expenses.
                    Sec. 2. Compensation and payment under this resolution
                shall be paid from and charged against the clerk-hire and
                travel allowances of the Senator employing such senior
                citizen intern.
                    Sec. 3. The Committee on Rules and Administration is
                authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as it
                determines necessary to carry out this resolution.

                [S. Res. 219, 95-2, May 5, 1978; S. Res. 96, 102-1, Apr. 24,
                                                                      1991.]

           111                SENATE EMPLOYEE CHILD CARE CENTER

                    Resolved,
                    (a) Definitions.--In this section--
                            (1) the term ``Board'' means the Board of
                        Directors of the Center;
                            (2) the term ``Center'' means the Senate
                        Employee Child Care Center;
                            (3) the term ``Congressional employee'' means a
                        Congressional employee, as defined in section 2107
                        of title 5, United States Code, who is not an
                        employee of the Senate or an employee of the Center;
                            (4) the term ``employee of the Senate'' has the
                        meaning given that term in section 207(e)(9) of
                        title 18, United States Code; and
                            (5) the term ``Federal employee'' means an
                        employee, as defined in section 2105 of title 5,
                        United States Code, who is not an employee of the
                        Senate,

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                        an employee of the Center, or a Congressional
                        employee.
                    (b) Reimbursement.--For fiscal year 2022, and each
                fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of the Senate shall,
                from amounts in the appropriations account ``Miscellaneous
                Items'' within the contingent fund of the Senate, reimburse
                the Center for the cost of the basic pay paid to the
                Executive Director and the cost of the basic pay paid to the
                Assistant Director of the Center.
                    (c) Enrollment.--
                            (1) In General.--As a condition of receiving
                        reimbursement under subsection (b), not later than
                        120 days after the date on which no parent or
                        guardian of a child enrolled at the Center is
                        serving in a position as an employee of the Senate,
                        an employee of the Center, a Congressional employee,
                        or a Federal employee, the Center shall terminate
                        the enrollment of the child at the Center.
                            (2) Order.--As a condition of receiving
                        reimbursement under subsection (b), the Center shall
                        provide enrollment--
                                    (A) first, to a child of an individual
                                serving as a Senate employee or as an
                                employee of the Center;
                                    (B) second, to a child of an individual
                                serving as a Congressional employee; and
                                    (C) third, if there is an enrollment
                                slot available in the Center, no child of an
                                individual serving as an employee of the
                                Senate, as an employee of the Center, or as
                                a Congressional employee accepts the slot,
                                and no currently enrolled child is ready to
                                transition to the class in which the slot is
                                available, to a child of an individual
                                serving as a Federal employee.
                            (3) Effective Date; Application.--
                                    (A) In General.--Paragraph (1) shall
                                take effect on the date that is 180 days
                                after the date of adoption of this
                                resolution.
                                    (B) Application To Employees Separating
                                From Service Before Effective Date.--For
                                purposes of applying paragraph (1) to a
                                parent or guardian of a child enrolled at
                                the Center who ceases serving in a position
                                as a Congressional employee, an employee of
                                the Center, or Federal employee before the
                                date on which paragraph (1) takes ef

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                                fect, the parent or guardian shall be deemed
                                to have separated from such service on the
                                date on which paragraph (1) takes effect.

                [S. Res. 329, 117-1, Jul. 29, 2021.]

           112
                transportation costs and travel expenses incurred by members
                    and employees of the senate when engaged in authorized
                    foreign travel

                    Resolved, That until otherwise provided by law or
                resolution of the Senate, the contingent fund of the Senate
                is made available, as provided in this resolution, to defray
                the costs of transportation and the ordinary and necessary
                travel expenses of Members and employees of the Senate when
                engaged in authorized foreign travel. The Secretary of the
                Senate is authorized to advance funds, under authority of
                this resolution, in the same manner provided for committees
                of the Senate under the authority of Public Law 118, Eighty-
                first Congress, approved June 22, 1949.
                    Sec. 2. (a) Transportation costs and ordinary and
                necessary travel expenses incurred by a Member or employee
                engaged in authorized foreign travel shall be paid upon
                certification of such Member or employee, and upon vouchers
                approved by the Senator who authorized such foreign travel.
                    (b) Transportation costs and ordinary and necessary
                travel expenses which are incurred for a group of Members or
                employees engaged in authorized foreign travel shall be paid
                upon certification of the Member who is chairman of such
                group (or, if no chairman has been designated, upon
                certification of the ranking Member of such group) or, if
                the group does not include a Member, upon certification of
                the senior employee in such group, and upon vouchers
                approved by the Senator who authorized such foreign travel.
                    (c) The reports of the Secretary of the Senate setting
                forth amounts paid from the contingent fund under authority
                of this resolution shall, at the request of the chairman of
                the Select Committee on Intelligence, omit any matter which
                would identify the foreign countries in which Members and
                employees of the Select Committee traveled on behalf of the
                Select Committee.
                    Sec. 3. Payment of transportation costs and ordinary and
                necessary travel expenses may not be paid under this
                resolution to the extent that appropriated funds or foreign
                cur

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                rencies under section 502(b) of the Mutual Security Act of
                1954 are utilized to defray such costs and expenses. Such
                funds and currencies shall be used to the maximum extent
                possible.
                    Sec. 4. For purposes of this resolution--
                            (1) The term ``foreign travel'' means travel
                        outside the United States and includes travel within
                        the United States which is the beginning or end of
                        travel outside the United States.
                            (2) The term ``authorized foreign travel'' means
                        foreign travel on official business on behalf of the
                        Senate or a committee of the Senate which is
                        authorized--
                                    (A) in the case of foreign travel on
                                behalf of the Senate, by the President pro
                                tempore, Majority Leader, or Minority Leader
                                of the Senate; and
                                    (B) in the case of foreign travel on
                                behalf of a committee of the Senate, by the
                                chairman of that committee.
                            (3) The term ``committee of the Senate''
                        includes all standing, select, and special
                        committees of the Senate and all joint committees of
                        the Congress whose funds are disbursed by the
                        Secretary of the Senate.
                            (4) The term ``employee of the Senate'' includes
                        an individual (other than a Member) whose salary is
                        disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or who is
                        treated as an employee of the Senate for purposes of
                        the Senate Code of Official Conduct.
                            (5) The term ``ordinary and necessary travel
                        expenses'' includes, in the case of a group of
                        Members engaged in authorized foreign travel, such
                        special expenses as the chairman (or, if there is no
                        chairman, the ranking Member) deems appropriate,
                        including, to the extent not otherwise provided,
                        reimbursements to any agency of the Government for
                        (A) expenses incurred on behalf of the group, (B)
                        compensation (including overtime) of employees of
                        such agency officially detailed to the group, and
                        (C) expenses incurred in connection with providing
                        appropriate hospitality.

                                          [S. Res. 179, 95-1, May 25, 1977.]

           113   DOCUMENTATION REQUIRED FOR REIMBURSEMENTS OUT OF SENATORS'
                              OFFICIAL OFFICE EXPENSE ACCOUNTS

                    Resolved, That (a) no payments or reimbursements for
                expenses shall be made from the contingent fund of the

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                Senate, unless the vouchers presented for such expenses are
                accompanied by supporting documentation.
                    (b) The Committee on Rules and Administration is
                authorized to promulgate regulations to carry out the
                purpose of this resolution and to except specific vouchers
                from the requirements of subsection (a) of this resolution.
                    (c) This resolution shall apply with respect to vouchers
                submitted for payment or reimbursement on and after October
                1, 1987, or upon the adoption of this resolution if such
                adoption occurs at a later date.
                    (d) Senate Resolution 170, 96th Congress (agreed to
                August 2, 1979), is repealed as of October 1, 1987, or upon
                adoption of this resolution if such adoption occurs at a
                later date. Any regulations adopted by the Committee on
                Rules and Administration to implement Senate Resolution 170
                shall remain in effect, after the repeal of Senate
                Resolution 170, until modified or repealed by such
                committee, and shall be held and considered to be
                regulations adopted to implement this resolution.

                [S. Res. 258, 100-1, Oct. 1, 1987.]

           114
                restrictions on certain expenses payable or reimbursable
                    from a senator's official office expense account

                    Resolved, That except for section 3, this resolution
                applies only to payments and reimbursements from the
                contingent fund of the Senate under paragraphs (5) and (9)
                of section 506(a) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act,
                1973 (2 U.S.C. 58(a)). For purposes of such paragraphs, the
                terms ``official office expenses'' and ``other official
                expenses'' mean ordinary and necessary business expenses
                incurred by a Senator and his staff in the discharge of
                their official duties.
                    Sec. 2. Reimbursements and payments from the contingent
                fund of the Senate under paragraphs (5) and (9) of section
                506(a) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1973 (2
                U.S.C. 58(a)) shall not be made for:
                            (1) commuting expenses, including parking fees
                        incurred in commuting;
                            (2) expenses incurred for the purchase of
                        holiday greeting cards, flowers, trophies, awards,
                        and certificates;
                            (3) donations or gifts of any type, except gifts
                        of flags which have been flown over the United
                        States Capitol, copies of the book ``We, the
                        People'', copies

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                        of the calendar ``We The People'' published by the
                        United States Capitol Historical Society, and copies
                        of the pocket version of the Constitution of the
                        United States published by the Government Publishing
                        Office.
                            (4) dues or assessments;
                            (5) expenses incurred for the purchases of radio
                        or television time, or for space in newspaper or
                        other print media (except classified advertising for
                        personnel to be employed in a Senator's office);
                            (6) expenses incurred by an individual who is
                        not an employee (except as specifically authorized
                        by subsections (e) and (h) of such section 506);
                            (7) travel expenses incurred by an employee
                        which are not reimbursable under subsection (e) of
                        such section 506;
                            (8) relocation expenses incurred by an employee
                        in connection with the commencement or termination
                        of employment or a change of duty station; and
                            (9) compensation paid to an individual for
                        personal services performed in a normal employer-
                        employee relationship.
                    Sec. 3. Payment of or reimbursement for the following
                expenses is specifically prohibited by law and
                reimbursements and payments from the contingent fund of the
                Senate shall not be made therefor:
                            (1) expenses incurred for entertainment or meals
                        (2 U.S.C. 58(a));
                            (2) payment of additional salary or compensation
                        to an employee (2 U.S.C. 68); and
                            (3) expenses incurred for maintenance or care of
                        private vehicles (Legislative Branch Appropriation
                        Acts).
                    Sec. 4. This resolution shall apply with respect to
                expenses incurred on or after the date on which this
                resolution is agreed to.

                 [S. Res. 294, 96-2, Apr. 29, 1980, as amended S. Res. 712,
                  115-2, Nov. 29, 2018; S. Res. 176, 104-1, Sept. 28, 1995.]

           115                         DEBT COLLECTION

                    Resolved, That, for purposes of subchapters I and II of
                chapter 37 of Title 31, United States Code (relating to
                claims of or against the United States Government), the
                United States Senate shall be considered to be a legislative
                agency (as defined in section 3701(a)(4) of such title), and

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                the Secretary of the Senate shall be deemed to be the head
                of such legislative agency.
                    Sec. 2. Regulations prescribed by the Secretary pursuant
                to section 3716 of Title 31, United States Code, shall not
                become effective until they are approved by the Senate
                Committee on Rules and Administration.

                                        [S. Res. 147, 101-1, June 20, 1989.]

           116                     TORT CLAIMS PROCEDURES

                    Resolved, That the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, in
                accordance with regulations prescribed by the Attorney
                General and such regulations as the Committee on Rules and
                Administration may prescribe, may consider and ascertain
                and, with the approval of the Committee on Rules and
                Administration, determine, compromise, adjust, and settle,
                in accordance with the provisions of chapter 171 of Title
                28, United States Code, any claim for money damages against
                the United States for injury of loss of property or personal
                injury or death caused by the negligent or wrongful act or
                omission of any Member, officer, or employee of the Senate
                while acting within the scope of his office or employment,
                under circumstances where the United States, if a private
                person, would be liable to the claimant in accordance with
                the law of the place where the act or omission occurred. The
                Committee on Rules and Administration may, from time to
                time, delegate any or all of its authority under this
                resolution to the chairman. Any compromise, adjustment, or
                settlement of any such claim not exceeding $2,500 shall be
                paid from the contingent fund of the Senate on a voucher
                approved by the chairman of the Committee on Rules and
                Administration.
                    Sec. 2. The Committee on Rules and Administration is
                authorized to issue such regulations as it may determine
                necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution.

                                         [S. Res. 492, 97-2, Dec. 10, 1982.]

           117              REIMBURSEMENT OF WITNESS EXPENSES\21\

                    Resolved, That witnesses appearing before the Senate or
                any of its committees may be authorized reimbursement

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                for per diem expenses incurred for each day while traveling
                to and from the place of examination and for each day in
                attendance. Such reimbursement shall be made on an actual
                expense basis which shall not exceed the daily rate
                prescribed by the Committee on Rules and Administration,
                unless such limitation is specifically waived by such
                committee. A witness may also be authorized reimbursement of
                the actual and necessary transportation expenses incurred by
                the witness in traveling to and from the place of
                examination.
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                    \21\The Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1961 (July
                12, 1960, Pub. L. 86-628, 74 Stat. 449), contained the
                following restriction on advances of witness fees:
                    ``No part of any appropriation disbursed by the
                Secretary of the Senate shall be available hereafter for the
                payment to any person, at the time of the service upon him
                of a subpoena requiring his attendance at any inquiry or
                hearing conducted by any committee of the Congress or of the
                Senate or any subcommittee of any such committee, of any
                witness fee or any sum of money as an advance payment of any
                travel or subsistence expense which may be incurred by such
                person in responding to that subpoena.''

                    Sec. 2. (a) The provisions of this resolution shall be
                effective with respect to all witness expenses incurred on
                or after October 1, 1987.
                    (b) Senate Resolution 538, agreed to December 8, 1980,
                is repealed effective on October 1, 1987.

                                         [S. Res. 259, 100-1, Aug. 5, 1987.]

           118  AUTHORIZING THE SENATE TO PARTICIPATE IN GOVERNMENT TRANSIT
                                          PROGRAMS

                    Resolved, That (a) the Senate shall participate in State
                and local government transit programs to encourage employees
                of the Senate to use public transportation pursuant to
                section 629 of the Treasury, Postal Service and General
                Government Appropriations Act, 1991.
                (b) The Committee on Rules and Administration is authorized
                to issue regulations pertaining to Senate participation in
                State and local government transit programs through, and at
                the discretion of, its Members, committees, officers, and
                officials.

                                        [S. Res. 318, 102-2, June 23, 1992.]

           119   RELATIVE TO CONTRIBUTIONS FOR COSTS OF CIVIL, CRIMINAL, OR
                    OTHER LEGAL INVESTIGATIONS OF MEMBERS, OFFICERS, OR
                                   EMPLOYEES OF THE SENATE

                    Resolved, That nothing in the provisions of the Standing
                Rules of the Senate shall be construed to limit
                contributions to defray investigative, civil, criminal, or
                other legal expenses of Members, officers, or employees of
                the Senate relating to their service in the United States
                Senate, subject to limitations, regulations, procedures, and
                reporting requirements which shall be promulgated by the
                Select

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                Committee on Ethics. Nothing in the provisions of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate shall be construed to limit
                contributions to defray the legal expenses of the spouses or
                dependents of Members, officers, or employees of the Senate.

                [S. Res. 508, 96-2, Sept. 4, 1980.]

           120    CLARIFYING RULES REGARDING ACCEPTANCE OF PRO BONO LEGAL
                                    SERVICES BY SENATORS

                    Resolved, That (a) notwithstanding the provisions of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate or Senate Resolution 508,
                adopted by the Senate on September 4, 1980, or Senate
                Resolution 321, adopted by the Senate on October 3, 1996,
                pro bono legal services provided to a Member of the Senate
                with respect to any civil action challenging the
                constitutionality of a Federal statute that expressly
                authorizes a Member either to file an action or to intervene
                in an action--
                            (1) shall not be deemed a gift to the Member;
                            (2) shall not be deemed to be a contribution to
                        the office account of the Member;
                            (3) shall not require the establishment of a
                        legal expense trust fund; and
                            (4) shall be governed by the Select Committee on
                        Ethics Regulations Regarding Disclosure of Pro Bono
                        Legal Services, adopted February 13, 1997, or any
                        revision thereto.
                    (b) This resolution shall supersede Senate Resolution
                321, adopted by the Senate on October 3, 1996.

                                        [S. Res. 227, 107-2, Mar. 20, 2002.]

           121  STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR MEMBERS OF THE SENATE AND OFFICERS
                                 AND EMPLOYEES OF THE SENATE

                    Resolved, It is declared to be the policy of the Senate
                that--
                    (a) The ideal concept of public office, expressed by the
                words, ``A public office is a public trust'', signifies that
                the officer has been entrusted with public power by the
                people; that the officer holds this power in trust to be
                used only for their benefit and never for the benefit of
                himself or of a few; and that the officer must never conduct
                his own affairs so as to infringe on the public interest.
                All official conduct of Members of the Senate should be
                guided by this paramount concept of public office.
                    (b) These rules, as the written expression of certain
                standards of conduct, complement the body of unwritten

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                but generally accepted standards that continue to apply to
                the Senate.

                                         * * * * * *

                                        [S. Jour. 247, 90-2, Mar. 22, 1968.]

           122                       SEAL OF THE SENATE

                    Resolved, That the Secretary shall have the custody of
                the seal, and shall use the same for the authentication of
                process transcripts, copies, and certificates whenever
                directed by the Senate; and may use the same to authenticate
                copies of such papers and documents in his office as he may
                lawfully give copies of.

                [S. Jour. 194, 49-1, Jan. 20, 1886.]

           123                      OFFICIAL SENATE FLAG

                    Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate is authorized
                and directed to design an official Senate flag utilizing the
                seal of the Senate as the principal symbol on such flag.
                Expenses incident to the designing and procurement of such
                flag shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate
                upon vouchers signed by the Secretary of the Senate.
                    Sec. 2. The Senate flag shall be available for purchase
                and use by Senators, or former Senators, only subject to the
                following conditions--
                            (1) purchase of the flag shall be limited to--
                                    (A) two flags for each Senator, or
                                former Senator, subject to replacement for
                                loss, destruction, or wear and tear;
                                    (B) two flags for each Senate committee,
                                as determined by the chairman and ranking
                                member, subject to replacement for loss,
                                destruction, or wear and tear; and
                                    (C) two flags for each officer of the
                                Senate, subject to replacement for loss,
                                destruction, or wear and tear; and
                            (2) the flag shall not be utilized or displayed
                        for commercial purposes.
                Senators who leave the Senate may retain their flags subject
                to the preceding restrictions.

                [S. Res. 369, 98-2, Sept. 7, 1984; S. Res. 135, 101-1, June
                    2, 1989.]

           124                SEAL OF THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE

                    Resolved, That the President pro tempore of the Senate
                is authorized to adopt and use an official seal of his
                office.

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                    Sec. 2. Expenses incident to the designing and
                procurement of such seal shall be paid from the contingent
                fund of the Senate upon vouchers signed by the President pro
                tempore of the Senate.
                    Sec. 3. A description and illustration of the seal
                adopted pursuant to this resolution shall be transmitted to
                the General Services Administration for publication in the
                Federal Register.

                [S. Jour. 686, 83-2, Aug. 14, 1954.]

           125                 MARBLE BUSTS OF VICE PRESIDENTS

                    Resolved, That marble busts of those who have been Vice
                Presidents of the United States shall be placed in the
                Senate wing of the Capitol from time to time, that the
                Architect of the Capitol is authorized, subject to the
                advice and approval of the Senate committee on Rules and
                Administration, to carry into the execution the object of
                this resolution, and the expenses incurred in doing so shall
                be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate.

                 [S. Jour. 40, 55-2, Jan. 6, 1898; S. Jour. 173, 80-1, Mar.
                                                                  28, 1947.]

           126                AWARD OF SERVICE PINS OR EMBLEMS

                    Resolved, That the Committee on Rules and Administration
                is hereby authorized to provide for the awarding of service
                pins or emblems to Members, officers, and employees of the
                Senate, and to promulgate regulations governing the awarding
                of such pins or emblems. Such pins or emblems shall be of a
                type appropriate to be attached to the lapel of the wearer,
                shall be of such appropriate material and design, and shall
                contain such characters, symbols, or other matter, as the
                committee shall select.
                    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Senate, under direction of
                the committee and in accordance with regulations promulgated
                by the committee, shall procure such pins or emblems and
                award them to Members, officers, and employees of the Senate
                who are entitled thereto.
                    Sec. 3. The expenses incurred in procuring such pins or
                emblems shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate
                on vouchers signed by the chairman of the committee.

                [S. Jour. 45, 89-1, Sept. 10, 1965.]

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           127
                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

                    Resolved, That insofar as concerns the Senate--
                            (1) the Senate Office building referred to as
                        the Old Senate Office Building and constructed under
                        authority of the Act of April 28, 1904 (33 Stat.
                        452, 481), is designated, and shall be known as, the
                        ``Richard Brevard Russell Senate Office Building'';
                        and
                            (2) the additional office building for the
                        Senate referred to as the New Senate Office Building
                        and constructed under the provisions of the Second
                        Deficiency Appropriation Act of 1948 (62 Stat.
                        1928), is designated, and shall be known as, the
                        ``Everett McKinley Dirksen Senate Office Building''.
                    Sec. 2. Any rule, regulation, document, or record of the
                Senate, in which reference is made to either building
                referred to in the first section of this resolution, shall
                be held and considered to be a reference to such building by
                the name designated for such building by the first section
                of this resolution.
                    Sec. 3. The Committee on Rules and Administration shall
                place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable
                locations within the buildings referred to in the first
                section of this resolution to commemorate and designate such
                buildings as provided in this resolution. Expenses incurred
                under this resolution shall be paid from the contingent fund
                of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the
                committee.

                [S. Jour. 1197, 92-2, Oct. 11, 1972; S. Res. 295, 96-1, Dec.
                                                                   3, 1979.]

           128
                designating the extension to the dirksen senate office
                    building as the ``philip a. hart senate office
                    building''

                    Resolved, That insofar as concerns the Senate, the
                extension of the Senate Office Building presently under
                construction pursuant to the Supplemental Appropriations
                Act, 1973 (86 Stat. 1510), is designated and shall be known
                as the ``Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building'', when
                completed.
                    Sec. 2. Any rule, regulation, document, or record of the
                Senate, in which reference is made to the building referred

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                to in the first section of this resolution, shall be held
                and considered to be a reference to such building by the
                name designated for such building by the first section of
                this resolution.
                    Sec. 3. The Committee on Rules and Administration shall
                place appropriate markers or inscriptions at suitable
                locations within the building referred to in the first
                section of this resolution to commemorate and designate such
                building as provided in this resolution. Expenses incurred
                under this resolution shall be paid from the contingent fund
                of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the
                committee.

                 [S. Res. 525, 94-2, Aug. 30, 1976; S. Res. 295, 96-1, Dec.
                                                                   3, 1979.]

           129  PROHIBITION ON THE REMOVAL OF ART AND HISTORIC OBJECTS FROM
                 THE SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL AND SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS
                                      FOR PERSONAL USE

                    Resolved, That (a) a Member of the Senate or any other
                person may not remove a work of art, historical object, or
                an exhibit from the Senate wing of the Capitol or any Senate
                office building for personal use.
                    (b) For purposes of this resolution, the term ``work of
                art, historical object, or an exhibit'' means an item,
                including furniture, identified on the list (and any
                supplement to the list) required by section 4 of Senate
                Resolution 382, 90th Congress, as enacted into law by
                section 901(a) of Public Law 100-696 (2 U.S.C. 2104).
                    (c) For purposes of this resolution, the Senate
                Commission on Art shall update the list required by section
                4 of Senate Resolution 382, 90th Congress (2 U.S.C. 2104)
                every 6 months after the date of adoption of this resolution
                and shall provide a copy of the updated list to the
                Committee on Rules and Administration.

                                        [S. Res. 178, 108-1, June 27, 2003.]

           130     COMMISSION ON ART AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE UNITED STATES
                                         SENATE\22\
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                    \22\Became Senate Commission on Art, and enacted into
                permanent law by Pub. L. 100-696, Nov. 18, 1988. See 2
                U.S.C. Sec. Sec. 2101-2108.
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                                           [Pub. L. 100-696, Nov. 18, 1988.]

           131     INTERPARLIAMENTARY ACTIVITIES AND RECEPTION OF CERTAIN
                                      FOREIGN OFFICIALS

                    Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign Relations is
                authorized from March 1, 1981, until otherwise provided

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                by law, to expend not to exceed $30,000 each fiscal year to
                assist the Senate properly to discharge and coordinate its
                activities and responsibilities in connection with
                participation in various interparliamentary institutions and
                to facilitate the interchange and reception in the United
                States of members of foreign legislative bodies and
                prominent officials of foreign governments and
                intergovernmental organizations.
                    Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and
                directed to pay from the contingent fund of the Senate the
                actual and necessary expenses incurred in connection with
                activities authorized by this resolution and approved in
                advance by the chairman of the Committee on Foreign
                Relations upon vouchers certified by the Senator incurring
                such expenses and approved by the chairman.

                [S. Res. 247, 87-2, Feb. 7, 1962; S. Res. 91, 94-1, Mar. 18,
                1975; S. Res. 281, 96-2, Mar. 11, 1980; S. Res. 370, 106-2,
                                                             Oct. 10, 2000.]

           132   AUTHORIZING THE DISPLAY OF THE SENATE LEADERSHIP PORTRAIT
                               COLLECTION IN THE SENATE LOBBY

                    Resolved, That (a) portraits in the Senate Leadership
                Portrait Collection may be displayed in the Senate Lobby at
                the direction of the Senate Commission on Art in accordance
                with guidelines prescribed pursuant to subsection (d).
                    (b) The Senate Leadership Portrait Collection shall
                consist of portraits selected by the Senate Commission on
                Art of Majority or Minority Leaders and Presidents pro
                tempore of the Senate.
                    (c) Any portrait for the Senate Leadership Portrait
                Collection that is acquired on or after the date of adoption
                of this resolution shall be of an appropriate size for
                display in the Senate Lobby, as determined by the Senate
                Commission on Art.
                    (d) The Senate Commission on Art shall prescribe such
                guidelines as it deems necessary, subject to the approval of
                the Committee on Rules and Administration, to carry out this
                resolution.

                                         [S. Res. 148, 109-1, May 18, 2005.]

           133  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

                    Resolved,  No permanent artwork or semi-permanent
                artwork may be affixed to or removed from the walls, floors,
                or ceilings of the public spaces and committee rooms of

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                the Senate wing of the Capitol and the Senate office
                buildings unless--
                            (1) the Senate Commission on Art--
                                    (A) has recommended the affixation or
                                removal; and
                                    (B) in the case of an affixation of
                                permanent artwork or semi-permanent
                                artwork--
                                      (i) has recommended an appropriate
                                location for the affixation; and
                                      (ii) has determined that--
                                        (I) not less than 25 years have
                                passed since the death of any subject in a
                                portrait included in the permanent artwork
                                or semi-permanent artwork; and
                                        (II) not less than 25 years have
                                passed since the commemorative event that is
                                to be portrayed in the permanent artwork or
                                semi-permanent artwork; and
                            (2) the Senate has passed a Senate resolution
                        approving the recommendation of the Senate
                        Commission on Art.
                    Sec. 2. Sense of the Senate.
                    It is the sense of the Senate that prior to making a
                recommendation to affix any permanent artwork or semi-
                permanent artwork to the walls, floors, or ceilings of the
                public spaces and committee rooms of the Senate wing of the
                Capitol and the Senate office buildings, the Senate
                Commission on Art should consider, at a minimum, the
                following:
                            (1) The significance of the original, intended,
                        or existing permanent artwork or semi-permanent
                        artwork in the installation space proposed for the
                        additional permanent artwork or semi-permanent
                        artwork.
                            (2) The existing conditions of the surface of
                        the proposed installation space.
                            (3) The last time fixed art was added to the
                        proposed installation space.
                            (4) The amount of area available for the
                        installation of permanent artwork or semi-permanent
                        artwork in the proposed installation space.
                            (5) The opinion of the Curatorial Advisory Board
                        on such affixation.
                    Sec. 3. Creation of artwork.
                    If a request to affix permanent artwork or semi-
                permanent artwork to the walls, floors, or ceilings of the
                public spaces and committee rooms of the Senate wing of the
                Cap

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                itol and the Senate office buildings meets the requirements
                of section 1, the Senate Commission on Art shall select the
                artist and shall supervise and direct the creation of the
                artwork and the application of the artwork to the selected
                surface.
                    Sec. 4. Definitions.
                    In this resolution--
                    (1) permanent artwork.--The term ``permanent artwork''
                means artwork that when applied directly to a wall, ceiling,
                or floor has become part of the fabric of the building,
                based on a consideration of relevant factors including--
                            (A) the original intent when the artwork was
                        applied;
                            (B) the method of application;
                            (C) the adaptation or essentialness of the
                        artwork to the building; and
                            (D) whether the removal of the artwork would
                        cause damage to either the artwork or the surface
                        that contains it.
                    (2) semi-permanent artwork.--The term ``semi-permanent
                artwork'' means artwork that when applied directly to the
                surface of a wall, ceiling, or floor can be removed without
                damaging the artwork or the surface to which the artwork is
                applied.

                                         [S. Res. 629, 109-2, Dec. 7, 2006.]

           134    PUBLIC ACCESS TO SENATE RECORDS AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

                    Resolved, That any records of the Senate or any
                committee of the Senate which are transferred to the General
                Services Administration under rule XI of the Standing Rules
                of the Senate and section 2114 of Title 44, United States
                Code, and which have been made public prior to their
                transfer may be made available for public use.
                    Sec. 2. (a) Subject to such rules or regulations as the
                Secretary of the Senate may prescribe, any other records of
                the Senate or any committee of the Senate which are so
                transferred may be made available for public use--
                            (1) in the case of investigative files relating
                        to individuals and containing personal data,
                        personnel records, and records of executive
                        nominations, when such files and records have been
                        in existence for fifty years; and

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                            (2) in the case of all other such records, when
                        such records have been in existence for twenty
                        years.
                    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a),
                any committee of the Senate may, by action of the full
                committee, prescribe a different time when any of its
                records may be made available for public use, under specific
                conditions to be fixed by such committee, by giving notice
                thereof to the Secretary of the Senate and the Administrator
                of General Services.
                    Sec. 3. (a) This resolution shall not be construed to
                authorize the public disclosure of any record pursuant to
                section 2 if such disclosure is prohibited by law or
                Executive order of the President.
                    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 2, the
                Secretary of the Senate may prohibit or restrict the public
                disclosure of any record so transferred, other than any
                record of a Senate committee, if he determines that public
                disclosure of such record would not be in the public
                interest and so notifies the Administrator of General
                Services.
                    Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Senate shall transmit a
                copy of this resolution to the Administrator of General
                Services.

                                          [S. Res. 474, 96-2, Dec. 1, 1980.]

           135              PRINTING IN THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD

                    Resolved, That hereafter no written or printed matter
                shall be received for printing in the body of the
                Congressional Record as a part of the remarks of any Senator
                unless such matter (1) shall have been read orally by such
                Senator on the floor of the Senate, or (2) shall have been
                offered and received for printing in such manner as to
                indicate clearly that the contents thereof were not read
                orally by such Senator on the floor of the Senate. All such
                matter shall be printed in the Record in accordance with the
                rules prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing. No
                request shall be entertained by the Presiding Officer to
                suspend by unanimous consent the requirements of this
                resolution.

                                        [S. Jour. 510, 80-1, July 23, 1947.]

           136                PRINTING OF THE EXECUTIVE JOURNAL

                    Resolved, That, beginning with the first session,
                Ninetieth Congress, the Secretary of the Senate is
                authorized to have printed not more than one hundred and
                fifty copies of the Executive Journal for a session of the
                Congress.

                                        [S. Jour. 167, 90-1, Feb. 17, 1967.]

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           137  PRINTING OF MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO DECEASED FORMER MEMBERS OF
                                         THE SENATE

                    Resolved, That when the Senate orders the printing as a
                Senate document of the legislative proceedings in the United
                States Congress relating to the death of a former United
                States Senator, such document shall be prepared, printed,
                bound, and distributed, except to the extent otherwise
                provided by the Joint Committee on Printing under chapter 1
                of Title 44, United States Code, in the same manner and
                under the same conditions as memorial addresses on behalf of
                Members of Congress dying in office are printed under
                sections 723 and 724 of such Title.

                                         [S. Jour. 293, 93-1, Apr. 6, 1973.]

           138                    OFFICE OF SENATE SECURITY

                    Resolved, That (a) there is established, within the
                Office of the Secretary of the Senate (hereinafter referred
                to as the ``Secretary''), the Office of Senate Security
                (hereinafter referred to as the ``Office''), which shall be
                headed by a Director of Senate Security (hereinafter
                referred to as the ``Director''). The Office shall be under
                the policy direction of the Majority and Minority Leaders of
                the Senate, and shall be under the administrative direction
                and supervision of the Secretary.
                    (b)(1) The Director shall be appointed by the Secretary
                after consultation with the Majority and Minority Leaders.
                The Secretary shall fix the compensation of the Director.
                Any appointment under this subsection shall be made solely
                on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the
                position and without regard to political affiliation.
                    (2) The Director, with the approval of the Secretary,
                and after consultation with the Chairman and Ranking Member
                of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate,
                may establish such policies and procedures as may be
                necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution.
                Commencing one year from the effective date of this
                resolution, the Director shall submit an annual report to
                the Majority and Minority Leaders and the Chairman and
                Ranking Member of the Committee on Rules and Administration
                on the status of security matters and the handling of
                classified information in the Senate, and the progress of
                the Office in achieving the mandates of this resolution.
                    Sec. 2. (a) The Secretary shall appoint and fix the
                compensation of such personnel as may be necessary to carry
                out the provisions of this resolution. The Director, with

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                the approval of the Secretary, shall prescribe the duties
                and responsibilities of such personnel. If a Director is not
                appointed, the Office shall be headed by an Acting Director.
                The Secretary shall appoint and fix the compensation of the
                Acting Director.
                    (b) The Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate may
                each designate a Majority staff assistant and a Minority
                staff assistant to serve as their liaisons to the Office.
                Upon such designation, the Secretary shall appoint and fix
                the compensation of the Majority and Minority liaison
                assistants.
                    Sec. 3. (a) The Office is authorized, and shall have the
                responsibility, to develop, establish, and carry out
                policies and procedures with respect to such matters as:
                            (1) the receipt, control, transmission, storage,
                        destruction or other handling of classified
                        information addressed to the United States Senate,
                        the President of the Senate, or Members and
                        employees of the Senate;
                            (2) the processing of security clearance
                        requests and renewals for officers and employees of
                        the Senate;
                            (3) establishing and maintaining a current and
                        centralized record of security clearances held by
                        officers and employees of the Senate, and developing
                        recommendations for reducing the number of
                        clearances held by such employees;
                            (4) consulting and presenting briefings on
                        security matters and the handling of classified
                        information for the benefit of Members and employees
                        of the Senate;
                            (5) maintaining an active liaison on behalf of
                        the Senate, or any committee thereof, with all
                        departments and agencies of the United States on
                        security matters; and
                            (6) conducting periodic review of the practices
                        and procedures employed by all offices of the Senate
                        for the handling of classified information.
                    (b) Within 180 days after the Director takes office, he
                shall develop, after consultation with the Secretary, a
                Senate Security Manual, to be printed and distributed to all
                Senate offices. The Senate Security Manual will prescribe
                the policies and procedures of the Office, and set forth
                regulations for all other Senate offices for the handling of
                classified information.
                    (c) Within 90 days after taking office, the Director
                shall conduct a survey to determine the number of officers
                and

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                employees of the Senate that have security clearances and
                report the findings of the survey to the Majority and
                Minority Leaders and Secretary of the Senate together with
                recommendations regarding the feasibility of reducing the
                number of employees with such clearances.
                    (d) The Office shall have authority--
                            (1) to provide appropriate facilities in the
                        United States Capitol for hearings of committees of
                        the Senate at which restricted data or other
                        classified information is to be presented or
                        discussed;
                            (2) to establish and operate a central
                        repository in the United States Capitol for the
                        safeguarding of classified information for which the
                        Office is responsible; which shall include the
                        classified records, transcripts, and materials of
                        all closed sessions of the Senate; and
                            (3) to administer and maintain oaths of secrecy
                        under paragraph (2) of rule XXIX of the Standing
                        Rules of the Senate and to establish such procedures
                        as may be necessary to implement the provisions of
                        such paragraph.
                    Sec. 4. Funds appropriated for the fiscal year 1987
                which would be available to carry out the purposes of the
                Interim Office of Senate Security but for the termination of
                such Office shall be available for the Office of Senate
                Security.
                    Sec. 5. (a) All records, documents, data, materials,
                rooms, and facilities in the custody of the Interim Office
                of Senate Security at the time of its termination on July
                10, 1987, are transferred to the Office established by
                subsection (a) of the first section of this resolution.
                    (b) This resolution shall take effect on July 11, 1987.

                                         [S. Res. 243, 100-1, July 1, 1987.]

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                   UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER AND GALLERIES REGULATIONS

                ------------------------------------------------------------

                  [Adopted by the Committee on Rules and Administration on
                  October 7, 2020, pursuant to rule XXXIII of the Standing
                                    Rules of the Senate]

         150.1      1.0  Scope--These regulations are applicable only to the
                Senate Chamber and Galleries.

         150.2      2.0  Definitions--For purposes of these regulations, the
                following terms have the meaning specified.
                            2.1  Cloakroom means the two spaces, one
                        assigned to the majority party and one assigned to
                        the minority party, adjacent to the Senate Chamber.
                            2.2  Galleries means the ten seating galleries
                        located in the Senate Chamber.
                            2.3  Marble Room means the Senators meeting room
                        adjacent to the Senate Lobby.
                            2.4  Senate Chamber means the space that
                        encompasses the Senate Floor and Galleries.
                            2.5  Senate Floor means the floor of the Senate
                        Chamber.
                            2.6  Senate Lobby means the hallway space
                        adjoining the Senate Chamber to the Marble Room.
                            2.7  Sergeant at Arms means the Sergeant at Arms
                        of the Senate.

         150.3      3.0  Sergeant At Arms Chamber And Galleries Duties--The
                Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, under the direction of the
                Presiding Officer, shall be the Executive Officer of the
                body for the enforcement of all rules made by the Committee
                on Rules and Administration for the regulation of the Senate
                Chamber and Galleries.
                            3.1  The Senate Floor shall be at all times
                        under the Sergeant at Arms' immediate supervision,
                        and the Sergeant at Arms shall see that the various
                        subordinate officers of the Office of the Sergeant
                        at Arms perform the duties to which they are
                        especially assigned.

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                            3.2  The Sergeant at Arms shall see that the
                        messengers assigned to the doors upon the Senate
                        Floor are at their posts and that the Senate Floor,
                        Cloakrooms, and Senate Lobby are cleared at least
                        five minutes before the opening of daily sessions of
                        all persons not entitled to remain there.
                            3.3  In the absence of the Sergeant at Arms the
                        duties of the office, so far as they pertain to the
                        enforcement of the rules, shall devolve upon the
                        Deputy Sergeant at Arms.

         150.4      4.0  Messengers Acting as Assistant Doorkeepers--The
                messengers acting as Assistant Doorkeepers shall be assigned
                to their duties by the Sergeant at Arms.

         150.5      5.0  Assignment of Majority and Minority Secretaries--
                The secretary for the majority and the secretary for the
                minority shall be assigned, during the daily sessions of the
                Senate, to duty upon the Senate Floor.

         150.6      6.0  Use of the Senate Chamber--When the Senate is not
                sitting in session or otherwise using the Chamber for some
                function of the Senate, no Senator shall seat any person or
                persons in chairs of Senators other than the chair assigned,
                no other persons shall seat anyone in a chair of a Senator;
                and lectures, talks, or speeches shall not be given at such
                times to groups on the Senate Floor by Senators or others
                except for the purpose of explaining the Chamber.

         150.7      7.0  Use of the Marble Room--No persons shall be
                admitted to the Marble Room except Senators.

         150.8      8.0  Use of the Cloakrooms--No persons shall be admitted
                to the Cloakrooms except those entitled to the privileges of
                the Senate Floor under the Rule XXIII of the Standing Rules
                of the Senate.

         150.9      9.0  Use of the Senate Lobby--No persons shall be
                admitted to the Senate Lobby except those entitled to the
                privileges of the Senate Floor under the Rule XXIII of the
                Standing Rules of the Senate.

        150.10      10.0  Use of Display Materials in the Senate Chamber--
                Graphic displays in the Senate Chamber are limited to
                charts, photographs, or renderings:
                            10.1  Size--No larger than 36 inches by 48
                        inches.

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                            10.2  Where--On an easel stand next to the
                        Senator's desk or at the rear of the Chamber.
                            10.3  When--Only at the time the Senator is
                        engaged in debate.
                            10.4  Number--No more than two may be displayed
                        at a time.

        150.11      11.0  Solicitation and Commercial Activities
                Prohibited--No persons shall carry out any of the following
                activities in the Senate Chamber and Galleries: offer or
                expose any article for sale; display a sign, placard, or
                other form of advertisement; or solicit fares, alms,
                subscriptions, or contributions.

        150.12      12.0  Legislative Buzzers and Signal Lights--The system
                of legislative buzzers and signal lights, which correspond
                with rings if available, shall be as follows:
                            12.1  Pre-session signals:
                              12.1.1  One long ring at hour of convening.
                              12.1.2  One red light to remain lighted at all
                        times while Senate is in actual session.
                            12.2  Session signals:
                              12.2.1  One ring-Yeas and nays.
                              12.2.2  Two rings-quorum call.
                              12.2.3  Three rings-Call of absentees.
                              12.2.4  Four rings-Adjournment or recess. (End
                        of daily session.)
                              12.2.5  Five rings-Seven and a half minutes
                        remaining on yea and nay vote.
                              12.2.6  Morning business concluded-Six rings.
                        Lights cut off immediately.
                              12.2.7  Recess during daily session-Six rings.
                        Lights stay on during period of recess.

        150.13      13.0  Taking of Pictures Prohibited; Use of Mechanical
                Equipment in Chamber--
                            13.1  The taking of pictures of any kind is
                        prohibited in the Senate Chamber, the Marble Room,
                        the Senate Lobby, and the Senate Cloakrooms;
                        however,
                            13.2  The Sergeant at Arms shall be authorized
                        to admit into the spaces defined in 13.1 such
                        mechanical equipment and/or devices which, in the
                        judgment of the Sergeant at Arms, are necessary and
                        proper in the conduct of official Senate business
                        and which by their presence shall not in any way
                        distract, interrupt, or inconvenience the business
                        or Members of the Senate.

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        150.14      14.0  Galleries--The Sergeant at Arms shall keep the
                aisles of the galleries clear, and shall not allow
                admittance into the galleries of more than their seating
                capacity. The Sergeant at Arms shall not permit any person
                to enter a gallery with or carrying any firearms or
                dangerous weapons except for law enforcement and other
                personnel performing duties under the direction of the
                Senate, or any package, bundle, suitcase, briefcase, or
                camera; the Sergeant at Arms shall not permit any person in
                any gallery to smoke, applaud, or commit any other type of
                demonstration either by sound or sign; except in the press,
                radio, television, and correspondents' galleries the
                Sergeant at Arms shall not permit any person to read (except
                the Senate seating diagram) or to write or take notes
                (except credentialed employees of the Senate when taking
                notes in the course of their employment); the Sergeant at
                Arms shall not permit any person to take any picture or
                photograph or to sketch or draw; the Sergeant at Arms shall
                not permit any person to place any object whatsoever-
                including hats, coats, or other personal apparel-or portion
                of a person on any railing, or any person to wear a hat,
                except that where a person's religious beliefs require that
                person wear a head-cover in such public places as the Senate
                Gallery, then such head-cover shall be permitted; and the
                Sergeant at Arms shall not allow any person to lean forward
                over the railings or to place hands thereon.
                            14.1  The galleries of the Senate shall be set
                        apart and occupied as follows:
                              14.1.1  Gallery 1--the gallery above the
                        northeastern corner of the Senate Chamber, commonly
                        referred to as the Staff Gallery, is reserved for
                        the use of credentialed employees of the Senate.
                              14.1.2  Gallery 2--the gallery above the
                        eastern entrance to the Senate Chamber, commonly
                        referred to as the Family Gallery, is reserved for
                        the exclusive use of the families of Senators,
                        former Presidents of the United States, and
                        incumbent Secretary and Sergeant at Arms of the
                        Senate.
                                14.1.2.1  The first two rows of the gallery
                        are reserved for the spouses and other members of
                        the immediate families of Senators.
                                14.1.2.2  The remainder of the gallery is
                        reserved for the families of Senators and guests
                        visiting their families who shall be designated by
                        some member of the Senator's family, and for the
                        families of

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                        former Presidents of the United States, as well as
                        families of incumbent Secretary and Sergeant at Arms
                        of the Senate.
                              14.1.3  Gallery 3--the gallery over the
                        southeastern corner of the Senate Chamber, commonly
                        referred to as a Public Gallery, is reserved for the
                        use of persons holding a card issued by a Senator.
                                14.1.3.1  The period to which such card of
                        admission shall be limited rests entirely in the
                        discretion of the Senator issuing it, except that
                        such cards shall expire at the end of each session
                        and cards of a different color shall be furnished by
                        the Sergeant at Arms for the following session.
                                14.1.3.2  The Sergeant at Arms shall in the
                        Sergeant at Arms' discretion limit occupancy of the
                        public galleries to such periods as may be required
                        to accommodate with reasonable expediency all card
                        bearers who are seeking admission.
                              14.1.4  Gallery 4--the gallery between Gallery
                        3 and Gallery 5 on the south side of the Senate
                        Chamber, commonly referred to as the
                        Representatives' Gallery, is reserved for the use of
                        Members of Congress of the House of Representatives
                        and their guests.
                              14.1.5  Gallery 5--the gallery over the
                        southern main entrance to the Senate Chamber,
                        commonly referred to as the Presidential and
                        Diplomatic Gallery, is reserved for the use of the
                        Diplomatic Corps, and no person shall be admitted to
                        it excepting the Secretary of State, foreign
                        ministers, their families and Senators.
                                14.1.5.1  The first row on the eastern side
                        of this gallery shall be set apart for the use of
                        the President of the United States.
                                14.1.5.2  The second row on the eastern side
                        of this gallery shall be set apart for the use of
                        the Vice President of the United States.
                                14.1.5.3  The third row on the eastern side
                        of this gallery shall be set apart for the use of
                        the President pro tempore of the Senate.
                              14.1.6  Gallery 6--the gallery between Gallery
                        5 and Gallery 7 on the south side of the Senate
                        Chamber, commonly referred to as a Public Gallery,
                        is reserved for the use of large guided tours and
                        other special parties.

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                              14.1.7  Gallery 7--the gallery over the
                        southwest corner of the Senate Chamber, commonly
                        referred to as the Accessible Gallery, is reserved
                        for the use of any guest, especially those who wish
                        to avoid stairs, and those who would like to view
                        closed captioning television, or use an assisted
                        listening device.
                              14.1.8  Gallery 8--the gallery over the west
                        entrance to the Senate Chamber, commonly referred to
                        as a Public Gallery, is reserved for the use of
                        persons holding a card issued by a Senator.
                                14.1.8.1  The period to which such card of
                        admission shall be limited rests entirely in the
                        discretion of the Senator issuing it, except that
                        such cards shall expire at the end of each session
                        and cards of a different color shall be furnished by
                        the Sergeant at Arms for the following session.
                                14.1.8.2  The Sergeant at Arms shall in the
                        Sergeant at Arms' discretion limit occupancy of the
                        public galleries to such periods as may be required
                        to accommodate with reasonable expediency all card
                        bearers who are seeking admission.
                            14.1.9  Gallery 9--the gallery over the
                        northwest corner of the Senate Chamber, commonly
                        referred to as a Public Gallery, is reserved for the
                        use of persons holding a card issued by a Senator.
                                14.1.9.1  The period to which such card of
                        admission shall be limited rests entirely in the
                        discretion of the Senator issuing it, except that
                        such cards shall expire at the end of each session
                        and cards of a different color shall be furnished by
                        the Sergeant at Arms for the following session.
                                14.1.9.2  The Sergeant at Arms shall in the
                        Sergeant at Arms' discretion limit occupancy of the
                        public galleries to such periods as may be required
                        to accommodate with reasonable expediency all card
                        bearers who are seeking admission.
                              14.1.10  Gallery 10--the gallery above the
                        Senate Floor dais on the north side of the Senate
                        Chamber including the front row of Gallery 1 and the
                        front row of Gallery 9, commonly referred to as the
                        Media Gallery, is reserved for the exclusive use of
                        the Press Gallery, Radio and Television
                        Correspondents Gallery, Periodical Press Gallery,
                        and Press Photographers' Gallery.

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        150.15      15.0  Use of the Media Gallery--Gallery 10, the Media
                Gallery shall be further set apart and occupied as follows:
                            15.1  Press Gallery--The gallery in the rear of
                        the Vice President's chair shall be set apart for
                        reporters of daily newspapers.
                              15.1.1  The administration of the Press
                        Gallery shall be vested in a Standing Committee of
                        Correspondents elected by accredited members of the
                        gallery. The committee shall consist of five persons
                        elected to serve for terms of two years: Provided,
                        however, that at the election in January 1951, the
                        three candidates receiving the highest number of
                        votes shall serve for two years and the remaining
                        two for one year. Thereafter, three members shall be
                        elected in odd-numbered years and two in even-
                        numbered years. Elections shall be held in January.
                        The committee shall elect its own chair and
                        secretary. Vacancies on the committee shall be
                        filled by special election to be called by the
                        Standing Committee.
                                      15.1.2  Persons desiring admission to
                                the Press Gallery in the Senate wing shall
                                make application in accordance with Rule
                                XXXIII of the Standing Rules of the Senate,
                                which rule shall be interpreted and
                                administered by the Standing Committee of
                                Correspondents, subject to the review and
                                approval by the Senate Committee on Rules
                                and Administration.
                                      15.1.3  The Standing Committee of
                                Correspondents shall limit membership in the
                                Press Gallery to bona fide correspondents of
                                repute in their profession, under such rules
                                as the Standing Committee of Correspondents
                                shall prescribe: Provided, however, that the
                                Standing Committee of Correspondents shall
                                admit to the Press Gallery no person who
                                does not establish to the satisfaction of
                                the Standing Committee all of the following:
                                15.1.3.1  That the person's principal income
                        is obtained from news correspondence intended for
                        publication in newspapers entitled to second-class
                        mailing privileges.
                                15.1.3.2  That the person is not engaged in
                        paid publicity or promotion work or in prosecuting
                        any claim before Congress or before any department

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                        of the Government, and will not become so engaged
                        while a member of the Press Gallery.
                                15.1.3.3  That the person is not engaged in
                        any lobbying activity and will not become so engaged
                        while a member of the Press Gallery.
                              15.1.4  Members of the families of
                        correspondents are not entitled to the privileges of
                        the Press Gallery.
                              15.1.5  The Standing Committee of
                        Correspondents shall propose no change or changes in
                        these rules except upon petition in writing signed
                        by not less than 100 accredited members of the Press
                        Gallery.
                            15.2  Radio and Television Correspondents
                        Gallery--The front row of Gallery 1 shall be set
                        apart for the use of the radio-television
                        correspondents.
                              15.2.1  Persons desiring admission to the
                        Radio and Television Correspondents Gallery of the
                        Senate shall make application to the Committee on
                        Rules and Administration of the Senate, as required
                        by Rule XXIII of the Standing Rules of the Senate;
                        and shall also state, in writing, the names of all
                        radio stations, television stations, systems, or
                        newsgathering organizations by which they are
                        employed; and what other occupation or employment
                        they may have, if any; and shall further declare
                        that they are not engaged in the prosecution of
                        claims or promotion of legislation pending before
                        Congress, the departments, or the independent
                        agencies, and that they will not become so employed
                        without resigning from the gallery. They shall
                        further declare that they are not employed in any
                        legislative or executive department or independent
                        agency of the Government, or by any foreign
                        government or representative thereof; that they are
                        not engaged in any lobbying activities; that they do
                        not and will not, directly or indirectly, furnish
                        special information to any organization, individual,
                        or group of individuals, for the influencing of
                        prices on any commodity or stock exchange; that they
                        will not do so during the time they retain
                        membership in the gallery. Holders of visitors'
                        cards who may be allowed temporary admission to the
                        gallery must conform to all the restrictions of this
                        paragraph.
                              15.2.2  It shall be prerequisite to membership
                        that the radio station, television station, system,
                        or newsgathering agencies which the applicants
                        represent shall certify, in writing, to the Radio
                        and Tele

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                        vision Correspondents Gallery that the applicants
                        conform to the foregoing regulations.
                              15.2.3  The applications required by the above
                        rule shall be authenticated in a manner that shall
                        be satisfactory to the Executive Committee of the
                        Radio and Television Correspondents Gallery, which
                        shall see that the occupation of the gallery is
                        confined to bona fide news gatherers and/ or
                        reporters of reputable standing in their business
                        who represent radio stations, television stations,
                        systems, or newsgathering agencies engaged primarily
                        in serving radio stations, television stations, or
                        systems. It shall be the duty of the Executive
                        Committee of the Radio and Television Correspondents
                        Gallery to report, at its discretion, violation of
                        privileges of the gallery to the Senate Committee on
                        Rules and Administration, and, pending action
                        thereon, the offending individual may be suspended.
                              15.2.4  Persons engaged in other occupations,
                        whose chief attention is not given to-or more than
                        one-half of their earned income is not derived from-
                        the gathering or reporting of news for radio
                        stations, television stations, systems, or
                        newsgathering agencies primarily serving radio
                        stations, television stations, or systems, shall not
                        be entitled to admission to the Radio and Television
                        Correspondents Gallery. The Radio and Television
                        Correspondents list in the Congressional Directory
                        shall be a list only of persons whose chief
                        attention is given to the gathering and reporting of
                        news for radio stations, television stations, and
                        systems engaged in the daily dissemination of news,
                        and of representatives of newsgathering agencies
                        engaged in the daily service of news to such radio
                        stations, television stations, or systems.
                              15.2.5  Members of the families of
                        correspondents are not entitled to the privileges of
                        the gallery.
                              15.2.6  The Radio and Television
                        Correspondents Gallery shall be under the control of
                        the Executive Committee of the Radio and Television
                        Correspondents Gallery, subject to the approval and
                        supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules and
                        Administration.
                            15.3  Periodical Press Gallery - The front row
                        of Gallery 9 shall be set aside for the use of the
                        periodical press.

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                              15.3.1  Persons eligible for admission to the
                        Periodical Press Gallery of the Senate must be bona
                        fide resident correspondents of reputable standing,
                        giving their chief attention to the gathering and
                        reporting of news. They shall state in writing the
                        names of their employers and their additional
                        sources of earned income; and they shall declare
                        that, while a member of the Gallery, they will not
                        act as an agent in the prosecution of claims, and
                        will not become engaged or assist, directly or
                        indirectly, in any lobbying, promotion, advertising,
                        or publicity activity intended to influence
                        legislation or any other action of the Congress, nor
                        any matter before any independent agency, or any
                        department or other instrumentality of the Executive
                        Branch; and that they will not act as an agent for,
                        or be employed by the federal, or any state, local
                        or foreign government or representatives thereof;
                        and that they will not, directly or indirectly,
                        furnish special or ``insider'' information intended
                        to influence prices or for the purpose of trading on
                        any commodity or stock exchange; and that they will
                        not become employed, directly or indirectly, by any
                        stock exchange, board of trade or other organization
                        or member thereof, or brokerage house or broker
                        engaged in the buying and selling of any security or
                        commodity. Applications shall be submitted to the
                        Executive Committee of the Periodical
                        Correspondents' Association and shall be
                        authenticated in a manner satisfactory to the
                        Executive Committee.
                              15.3.2  Applicants must be employed by
                        periodicals that regularly publish a substantial
                        volume of news material of either general, economic,
                        industrial, technical, cultural or trade character.
                        The periodical must require such Washington coverage
                        on a continuing basis and must be owned and operated
                        independently of any government, industry,
                        institution, association, or lobbying organization.
                        Applicants must also be employed by a periodical
                        that is published for profit and is supported
                        chiefly by advertising or by subscription, or by a
                        periodical meeting the conditions in this paragraph
                        but published by a non-profit organization that,
                        first, operates independently of any government,
                        industry, or institution and, second, does not
                        engage, directly or indirectly, in any lobbying or

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                        other activity intended to influence any matter
                        before Congress or before any independent agency or
                        any department or other instrumentality of the
                        Executive Branch. House organs are not eligible.
                              15.3.3  Members of the families of
                        correspondents are not entitled to the privileges of
                        the gallery.
                              15.3.4  The Executive Committee may issue
                        temporary credentials permitting the privileges of
                        the Gallery to individuals who meet the rules of
                        eligibility but who may be on short-term assignment
                        or temporarily resident in Washington.
                              15.3.5  Under the authority of Rule XXIII of
                        the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Periodical
                        Press Gallery of the Senate shall be under the
                        control of the Executive Committee, subject to the
                        approval and supervision of the Senate Committee on
                        Rules and Administration. It shall be the duty of
                        the Executive Committee, at its discretion, to
                        report violations of the privileges of the Gallery
                        to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration,
                        and pending action thereon, the offending
                        correspondent may be suspended. The Committee shall
                        be elected at the start of each Congress by members
                        of the Periodical Correspondents' Association, and
                        shall consist of seven members with no more than one
                        member from any one publishing organization. The
                        Committee shall elect its own officers, and a
                        majority of the Committee may fill vacancies on the
                        Committee. The list in the Congressional Directory
                        shall be a list only of members of the Periodical
                        Correspondents' Association.
                            15.4  Press Photographer's Gallery--
                              15.4.1  Administration of the Press
                        Photographers' Gallery is vested in a Standing
                        Committee of Press Photographers consisting of six
                        persons elected by accredited members of the
                        gallery. The Committee shall be composed of one
                        member each from Associated Press Photos, Reuters
                        News Pictures or AFP Photos, magazine media, local
                        newspapers, agency or freelance member, and one at-
                        large member. The at-large member may be, but need
                        not be, selected from a media otherwise represented
                        on the Committee, however no organization may have
                        more than one representative on the Committee.
                              15.4.2  The term of office of a member of the
                        Committee elected as the Associated Press Photos

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                        member, the local newspaper member, and the Reuters
                        News Pictures or AFP Photos member shall expire on
                        the day of the election held in the first odd-
                        numbered year following the year in which the person
                        was elected, and the term of office of a member of
                        the Committee elected as the magazine media member,
                        the agency or freelance member and the at-large
                        member shall expire on the day of the election held
                        in the first even-numbered year following the year
                        in which the person was elected. A member elected to
                        fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of
                        a term shall serve only for the unexpired portion of
                        such term.
                                15.4.2.1  Election for the Reuters News
                        Picture or AFP photos seat was held in 1999.
                                15.4.2.2  Election for the agency or
                        freelance seat was held in 2000.
                              15.4.3  Elections shall be held as early as
                        practicable in each year and in no case later than
                        March 31. A vacancy in the membership of the
                        Committee occurring prior to the expiration of a
                        term shall be filled by special election called for
                        that purpose by the Committee.
                              15.4.4  The Standing Committee of the Press
                        Photographers' Gallery shall propose no change or
                        changes in these rules except upon petition in
                        writing signed by not less than 25 accredited
                        members of the gallery.
                              15.4.5  Persons desiring admission to the
                        Press Photographers' Gallery of the Senate shall
                        make application in accordance Rule XXIII of the
                        Standing Rules of the Senate, which rule shall be
                        interpreted and administered by the Standing
                        Committee of Press Photographers subject to the
                        review and approval of the Senate Committee on Rules
                        and Administration.
                              15.4.6  The Standing Committee of Press
                        Photographers shall limit membership in the
                        photographers' gallery to bona fide news
                        photographers of repute in their profession and to
                        heads of Photographic Bureaus under such rules as
                        the Standing Committee of Press Photographers shall
                        prescribe.
                              15.4.7  Provided, however, That the Standing
                        Committee of Press Photographers shall admit to the
                        gallery no person who does not establish to the
                        satisfaction of the Committee all of the following:

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                                15.4.7.1  That any member is not engaged in
                        paid publicity or promotion work or in prosecuting
                        any claim before Congress or before any department
                        of the Government, and will not become so engaged
                        while a member of the gallery.
                                15.4.7.2  That the person is not engaged in
                        any lobbying activity and will not become so engaged
                        while a member of the gallery.