[25.1e] 9. Maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, including the administration, sanitation, and government of the Canal Zone. 10. Conservation, development, and use of naval petroleum and oil shale reserves. 11. Strategic and critical materials necessary for the common defense. 12.1 Aeronautical and space activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems or military operations. (e) 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. Banking and currency generally. 2. Financial aid to commerce and industry, other than matters relating to such aid which are specifically assigned to other committees under this rule. 3. Deposit insurance. 4. Public and private housing. 5. Federal Reserve System. 6. Gold and silver, including the coinage thereof. 7. Issuance of notes and redemption thereof. 8. Valuation and revaluation of the dollar. 9. Control of prices of commodities, rents, or services. 1 As amended, S. Jour. 508, 85-2, July 24, 1958. Name changed from Committee on Banking and Currency by Sec. 131, Pub. Law 91-510, 84 Stat. 1163, Oct. 26, 1970. Added by Sec. 131, Pub. Law 91-510, 84 Stat. 1163, Oct. 26, 1970. (f) Committee on Commerce,' to which committee shall be [25.11] referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects: 1. Interstate and foreign commerce generally. 2. Regulations of interstate railroads, busses, trucks, and pipe lines. 3. Communication by telephone, telegraph, radio, and television. 2 4. Civil aeronautics, except aeronautical and space activi- 6. Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats. 8. Rules and international arrangements to prevent colli- 9. Merchant marine officers and seamen. 10. Measures relating to the regulation of common carriers by water and to the inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels. 11. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 12. The Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, and ocean derelicts. 13. The United States Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies. 14. Weather Bureau. Name changed from Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, S. Jour. 728, 87-1, Apr. 13, 1961. 'As amended, S. Jour. 508, 85-2, July 24, 1958. [19.5] 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. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XVIII. 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. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XVII [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] 7.2 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] 8.3 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. 1 As amended, S. Jour. 71, 63-2, Jan. 14, 1914. 2 As amended, S. Jour. 526-527, 85-1, Aug. 26, 1957. As amended, S. Jour. 527, 88-1, Oct. 1, 1963. RULE XX QUESTIONS OF ORDER [20] 1. A question of order may be raised at any stage of the [20.1] proceedings, except when the Senate is dividing, 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. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XXXIII. 2. The Presiding Officer may submit any question of order [20.2] for the decision of the Senate. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XXXIII. 1. All motions shall be reduced to writing, if desired by [21.1] the Presiding Officer or by any Senator, and shall be read before the same shall be debated. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XX. 2. Any motion or resolution may be withdrawn or modi- [21.2] fied 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. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XX. [22] RULE XXII PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS [22.1] 1. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received [22.2] 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 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. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XXXIII. 2.1 Notwithstanding the provisions of rule III or rule VI or any other rule of the Senate,2 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 shall at once state the motion to the Senate, 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 Secretary call the roll, and upon the ascertainment that a quorum is present, the Presiding Officer 1 As amended. S. Jour. 173, 81-1, Mar. 17, 1949. |