    [United States Senate Manual, 118th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 118-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 13-14]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            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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                    \3\ Paragraph 1 was amended by Pub. L. 110-81, Sep. 14,
                2007.
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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 Any motion, amendment, or resolution may be withdrawn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                to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave.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
                out and insert

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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.