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The Standing Rules of the Senate govern the procedural activities of the United States Senate. The latest version was adopted on April 27, 2000 and is comprised of the following 48 rules.

Senate Rules by Number

  1. Appointment of a Senator to the Chair
  2. Presentation of credentials and questions of privilege
  3. Oaths
  4. Commencement of daily sessions
  5. Suspension and amendment of the rules
  6. Quorum--absent Senators may be sent for
  7. Morning business
  8. Order of business
  9. Messages
  10. Special orders
  11. Papers--withdrawal, printing, reading of, and reference
  12. Voting procedure
  13. Reconsideration
  14. Bills, joint resolutions, resolutions, and preambles thereto
  15. Amendments and motions
  16. Appropriations and amendments to general appropriations bills
  17. Reference to committees; motions to discharge; reports of committees; and hearings available
  18. Business continued from session to session
  19. Debate
  20. Questions of order
  21. Session with closed doors
  22. Precedence of motions
  23. Privilege of the floor
  24. Appointment of committees
  25. Standing committees
  26. Committee procedure
  27. Committee staff
  28. Conference committees; reports; open meetings
  29. Executive sessions
  30. Executive session--proceedings on treaties
  31. Executive session--proceedings on nominations
  32. The President furnished with copies of records of executive sessions
  33. Senate Chamber--Senate wing of the Capitol
  34. Public financial disclosure
  35. Gifts
  36. Outside earned income
  37. Conflict of interest
  38. Prohibition of unofficial office accounts
  39. Foreign travel
  40. Franking privilege and radio and television studios
  41. Political fund activity; definitions
  42. Employment practices
  43. Representation by Members


Official text, Standing Rules of the Senate

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