Customary Senate rules were ignored in order to speed approval of the Negro leader as administrator of the housing and home finance agency.

One of the chief duties of a Vice President is presiding over the Senate, and Jefferson was concerned about its lack of rules leaving decisions to the discretion of the presiding officer.

Although Senate rules do not necessarily allow a negative vote in committee to block a nomination, a nominee may be filibustered once debate has begun in the full Senate.

While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, the Vice President still retains the ability to influence legislation ( e. g. the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ).

The Senate becomes less influential in administration and lawmaking ; Romulus rules by edict.

* The Senate votes on the petition ; three-fifths of the whole number of Senators ( sixty with no vacancies ) is the required majority ; however, when cloture is invoked on a question of changing the rules of the Senate, two-thirds of the Senators voting ( not necessarily two-thirds of all Senators ) is the requisite majority.

Mason's Manual, originally written by constitutional scholar and former California Senate staff member Paul Mason in 1935, and since his death revised and published by the National Conference of State Legislatures ( NCSL ), governs legislative procedures in instances where the state constitution, state statutes, and the chamber's rules are silent.

Dawes made a fiery, half-hour address denouncing the rules of the Senate, the seniority system and many other things that Senators held dear.

The rules and procedures of the Roman Senate were both complex and ancient.

Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless " three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn " ( usually 60 out of 100 senators ) brings debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

According to the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Ballin ( 1892 ), changes to Senate rules could be achieved by a simple majority, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March.

Nevertheless, under current Senate rules, a rule change itself could be filibustered, with two-thirds of those senators present and voting ( as opposed to the normal three-fifths of those sworn ) needing to vote to break the filibuster.

Senator John E. Sununu ( R ) of New Hampshire said, after Lott's election as Senate Minority Whip, " He understands the rules.

These conditions have periodically been the source of debate, and within these conditions, the composition and rules of the Senate have varied significantly since federation.

As a result, the Senate added to its rules the provision that " No senator in debate shall, directly or indirectly, by any form of words impute to another Senator or to other Senators any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator.

As holding princeps senatus, the emperor declared the opening and closure of each Senate session, declared the Senate's agenda, imposed rules and regulation for the Senate to follow, and met with foreign ambassadors in the name of the Senate.

In 1897, seeking to overcome the quorum busting tactics, the Senate changed its rules to effectively end the practice.

Coleman's most recent Senate financial disclosure form discloses that Laurie Coleman gets a salary from Hays Companies, but Senate rules do not require the salary amount to be revealed.

Based on the films, we can see that the Senate followed pseudo-parliamentary rules.

He made many diplomatic visits throughout Europe and the Americas, including an extensive visit to the United States in 1936 where he met Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed a personal envoy – who did not require Senate confirmation – to the Holy See in December 1939, re-establishing a diplomatic tradition that had been broken since 1870 when the pope lost temporal power.

However, these nominations do require Senate confirmation.

Whereas treaties require advice and consent by two-thirds of the Senate, sole executive agreements may be executed by the President acting alone.

And finally, congressional-executive agreements require majority approval by both the House and the Senate, either before or after the treaty is signed by the President.

An elected Vice President does not require Senate confirmation, nor do White House staff positions ( e. g. the chief of staff or press secretary ).

All of these high-ranking positions require Senate confirmation.

The core White House Staff appointments do not require Senate approval.

The Twelfth Amendment and require that the President of the Senate preside over joint sessions of Congress assembled to count electoral votes and to certify the results of a presidential election.

" There are also a few duties which must be specifically performed by, or bills that require assent by, the Queen ; these include applying the royal sign-manual and Great Seal of Canada to the appointment papers of governors general, the issuance of Letters Patent, the confirmation of awards of Canadian honours, the approval of any change in her Canadian title, and the creation of new Senate seats.

For the Australian Senate ( where each State forms a multi-seat constituency voting by single transferable vote ), the State Parliament appoints a replacement ; in 1977 a referendum amended the Constitution to require that the person appointed must belong to the same political party ( if any ) as the Senator originally elected to that seat.

On March 11, 1933, Senator Glass reintroduced ( as S. 245 ) his Glass bill revised to require banks to eliminate securities affiliates within 2 years rather than the 5 years permitted by the compromised version of the Glass bill the Senate had passed in January.

Like all statutory instruments, they may simply be required to be laid before both Houses of Parliament, or, they may be annulled in pursuance of a resolution of either the lower House ( House of Commons in the UK and Canada or House of Representatives in the other realms ), or the upper House ( House of Lords in the UK or Senate in other realms ) (' negative resolution procedure '), or require to be approved by a resolution of either House, or, exceptionally, both (' affirmative resolution procedure ').

Meanwhile, the provincial government has itself suggested that the legislation defining the Natural Monument should be changed, which will require that the proclamation be redrafted and ratified by both the Philippine House and Senate.

The ATSDR administrator, who provides overall leadership of the agency, is appointed by the president of the United States, and the appointment does not require Senate approval.

Rep. José E. Serrano, several members of the Outlying Areas Senate Presidents Caucus, headed by Senate of Puerto Rico President Kenneth McClintock and a resolution of the Puerto Rico Senate have called upon the FCC to require the merged company to offer service to the outlying areas of the US within a given timeframe as a condition for the merger.

However, the powers of the Senate were reduced, and on matters relating to francophone culture and language ( determined by the Speaker of the Senate ), passage of a bill would require a " double majority " — a majority in the Senate as a whole and a majority of francophone senators.

An amendment to the Constitution that would require a balanced budget unless sanctioned by a three-fifths vote in both houses of Congress ( H. J. Res. 1, passed by the US House Roll Call: 300-132, 1 / 26 / 95 ; rejected by the US Senate Roll Call: 65-35, 3 / 2 / 95, two-thirds required ), and legislation ( not an amendment ) provide the president with a line-item veto ( H. R. 2, passed by the US House Roll Call: 294-134, 2 / 6 / 95 ; conferenced with S. 4 and enacted with substantial changes 4 / 9 / 96 ).

In the U. S., laws require majority approval in both houses, while treaties require two-thirds approval in the Senate only.

* 1993 – Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his " dealings " with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

** Savings and loan crisis: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his dealings with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

At various times, Stevens also served as Chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the Senate Ethics Committee, the Arms Control Observer Group, and the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress.

Because of the convictions, the Senate Ethics Committee voted to censure Senator Williams and put a motion to the floor to expel the Senator for charges of bringing dishonor upon their house of Congress and his " ethically repugnant behavior.

Stennis wrote the first Senate ethics code, and was the first chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.

* United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics

On April 24, 2008, Domenici was admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee for " inappropriately " contacting in 2006 one of the nine U. S. attorneys later fired by President Bush.

The Ethics Committee said that Domenici ’ s phone call to Iglesias, in advance of an upcoming election, “ created an appearance of impropriety that reflected unfavorably on the Senate ”.

) Ensign insisted that, before a vote on the disclosure bill could be held, the committee would first vote on an amendment that " would force groups petitioning the Senate Ethics Committee to disclose the identity of donors giving more than $ 5, 000 ", which watchdog groups charged was intended to prevent passage of the bill.

From 2001 to 2003, he served as chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee.

" The Department of Justice declined to file criminal charges against Shelby and transferred the case to the Senate Ethics Committee, which dismissed its probe into the alleged leak.

He did turn over 5000 pages to the Senate Ethics Committee but balked when a further 3200 pages were demanded by the committee.

With pressure mounting against him, Packwood announced his resignation from the Senate on September 7, 1995, after the Senate Ethics Committee unanimously recommended that he be expelled from the Senate for ethical misconduct.

Sanford served on multiple Senate committees: Select Committee on Ethics ( Chair ); Special Committee on Aging ; Budget ; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs including the Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy and Subcommittee on Securities ; and Foreign Relations including Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs ( Chair ), Subcommittee on African Affairs, and Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs.

Dowd represented Senator John McCain ( R-AZ ) during the Senate Ethics Investigation known as the Keating 5 in the hearings held in 1990 and 1991.

An ethics complaint was filed against Fletcher Hartsell with the North Carolina Senate Ethics Committee alleging conflict-of-interest based on his past legal representation of a developer and the Water and Sewer Authority of Cabarrus County.

Rudman served on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Ethics Committee.

After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Alan Cranston, Dennis DeConcini, and Donald Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB in its investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand.

Cranston was reprimanded by the U. S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics for " improper conduct " on November 20, 1991 after Lincoln Savings head Charles Keating's companies contributed $ 850, 000 to voter registration groups closely affiliated with the senator.

The US Senate Select Committee on Ethics found in 2009 that there was " evidence on the record that the discounts offered to V. I. P. s and F. O. A. s were not the best deals that were available at Countrywide or in the marketplace at large.

In Canada, the monarch, the Governor General, members of the Canadian Senate, members of the House of Commons, the Clerk of the House of Commons, Parliamentary Librarian, Associate Parliamentary Librarian, officers of parliament, and the Senate Ethics Officer all have franking privilege and mails sent to or from these people are sent free of charge.