[United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
[S. Doc. 117-1]
[Standing Rules of the Senate]
[Pages 85-86]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


        40                             RULE XL

               FRANKING PRIVILEGE AND RADIO AND TELEVISION STUDIOS\84\
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                \84\39 U.S.C. 3210 contains statutory provisions that 
            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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                \87\Pursuant to Pub. L. 101-520, Nov. 5, 1990.
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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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                \88\As amended by S. Res. 224, 103-2, June 21, 1994.

     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.