Proposed Amendments to the Standing Rules of the Senate: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Standing Rules of the Senate of the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 9 [and Other] Proposed Amendments to the Standing Rules of the Senate; and S. Res. 10 and S. Res. 14, Proposed Amendments to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. June 16, 1961

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Page 23 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality, 21.
Page 27 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 39 - When a member shall be called to order, he shall sit down until the President shall have determined whether he is in order or not ; and every question of order shall be decided by the President, subject to an appeal to the Senate...
Page 19 - No one is to speak impertinently or beside the question, superfluously or tediously.
Page 29 - As an exercise of the rule-making power of the Senate and the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed in...
Page 16 - ... Officer having taken the chair, and a quorum being present, the Journal of the preceding day shall be read, and any mistake made in the entries corrected. The reading of the Journal shall not be suspended unless by unanimous consent; and when any motion shall be made to amend or correct the same, it shall be deemed a privileged question, and proceeded with until disposed of.
Page 36 - Officer shall recognize the Senator who shall first address him. No .Senator shall interrupt another Senator in debate without his consent, and to obtain such consent he shall first address the Presiding Officer; and no Senator shall speak more than twice upon any one question in debate on the same day without leave of the Senate, which shall be determined without debate.
Page 38 - If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the Senate, the Presiding Officer shall, or any Senator may, call him to order...
Page 26 - No law shall be passed except by bill, and no bill shall be so altered or amended on its passage through either house as to change its original purpose.
Page 24 - No member shall speak more than twice to the same question, without leave of the House, nor more than once, until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.

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