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The Standing Rules of the Senate detail the rules of order of the United States Senate. The latest version was adopted on April 27, 2000 and is comprised of the following 43 rules. Rules of order, also known as standing orders or rules of procedure, are the written rules of parliamentary procedure adopted by a deliberative assembly, which detail the processes used by the body to make decisions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...
Senate Rules by Number
Appointment of a Senator to the Chair
Presentation of credentials and questions of privilege
Oaths
Commencement of daily sessions
Suspension and amendment of the rules
Quorum--absent Senators may be sent for
Morning business
Order of business
Messages
Special orders
Papers--withdrawal, printing, reading of, and reference
Voting procedure
Reconsideration
Bills, joint resolutions, resolutions, and preambles thereto
Amendments and motions
Appropriations and amendments to general appropriations bills
Reference to committees; motions to discharge; reports of committees; and hearings available
Business continued from session to session
Debate
Questions of order
Session with closed doors
Precedence of motions
Privilege of the floor
Appointment of committees
Standing committees
Committee procedure
Committee staff
Conference committees; reports; open meetings
Executive sessions
Executive session--proceedings on treaties
Executive session--proceedings on nominations
The President furnished with copies of records of executive sessions
Senate Chamber--Senate wing of the Capitol
Public financial disclosure
Gifts
Outside earned income
Conflict of interest
Prohibition of unofficial office accounts
Foreign travel
Franking privilege and radio and television studios
Under the rules and customs of the Senate, a quorum is always assumed to be present unless a quorum call explicitly demonstrates otherwise.
Any senator may request a quorum call by "suggesting the absence of a quorum"; a clerk then calls the roll of the Senate and notes which members are present.
The longest filibuster speech in the history of the Senate was delivered by Strom Thurmond, who spoke for over twenty-four hours in an unsuccessful attempt to block the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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