SRES 12 ISCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit filling the tree.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

January 12, 2009CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Mr. SPECTER (for himself, Mr. COBURN, and Mr. ALEXANDER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules and AdministrationCommentsClose CommentsPermalink

To amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to prohibit filling the tree.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink

Resolved, That (a) rule XV of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by adding at the end the following:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





‘6. Notwithstanding action on a first degree amendment, it shall not be in order for a Senator to offer a second degree amendment to his or her own first degree amendment.’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink





(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect at the beginning of the 111th Congress.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink