Riddick Senate Procedure

Named after Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd M. Riddick, this Senate document contains the contemporary precedents and practives of the Senate. An appendix contains suggested forms for various procedures, eg., offering motions or filing conference reports. It is updated periodically by the Senate Parliamentarian.

More than ten thousand precedents have been researched, analyzed, and incorporated into the 1992 edition. The 1992 edition contains all current precedents and related Standing Rultes and statutory provisions, through the end of the 101st Congress (1989-1990).


Files are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) only.

List of Documents
  • Acknowledgements.pdf
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  • Adjournment.pdf
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  • Amendments Between Houses.pdf
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  • Amendments.pdf
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  • Appeals.pdf
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  • Appendix.pdf
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  • Appropriations.pdf
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  • Attendance of Senators.pdf
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  • Bills.pdf
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  • Brief Sessions of the Senate.pdf
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  • Business.pdf
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  • Calendar.pdf
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  • Campaign Expenditures.pdf
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  • Censure.pdf
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  • Charts Allowed on Senate Floor.pdf
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  • Closed Doors.pdf
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  • Cloture Procedure.pdf
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  • Commissions and Committees.pdf
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  • Committee of the Whole.pdf
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  • Committee on Aging.pdf
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  • Committee on Ethics.pdf
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  • Committee on Indian Affairs.pdf
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  • Committee on Intelligence.pdf
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  • Committee on Small Business.pdf
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  • Committees.pdf
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  • Communications and Messages to the Senate.pdf
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  • Concurrent Resolutions.pdf
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  • Conferences and Conference Reports.pdf
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  • Congress.pdf
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  • Congressional Approvals and Disapprovals.pdf
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  • Congressional Budget.pdf
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  • Congressional Record.pdf
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  • Consideration, Question of.pdf
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  • Constitutional Amendments.pdf
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  • Contempts.pdf
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  • Contents.pdf
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  • Contingent Fund.pdf
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  • Continuous Session.pdf
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  • Contributions for Senatorial Candidates.pdf
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  • Convening of a New Session.pdf
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  • Credentials and Oath of Office.pdf
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  • Daily Sessions.pdf
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  • Debate.pdf
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  • Decorum.pdf
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  • Departmental Inquiries.pdf
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  • Dilatory Motions.pdf
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  • Discharge of Committees.pdf
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  • Division of Pending Question.pdf
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  • Documents.pdf
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  • Electoral Vote.pdf
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  • Employment - Outside Employment of Senate Officers and Employees.pdf
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  • Enacting Clause.pdf
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  • Engrossed Bills and Resolutions.pdf
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  • Enrolled Bills and Joint Resolutions.pdf
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  • Executive Business and Executive Sessions.pdf
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  • Expulsion of Senators.pdf
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  • Financial Disclosure.pdf
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  • Floor Privileges.pdf
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  • Flowers in Senate Chamber.pdf
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  • Foreign Memorials and Petitions.pdf
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  • Foreword.pdf
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  • Front Matter.pdf
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  • Galleries.pdf
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  • Gentlemen's Agreement.pdf
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  • Germaneness of Amendments.pdf
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  • Germaneness of Debate.pdf
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  • House Bills.pdf
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  • Impeachment.pdf
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  • Interpretation of Bills.pdf
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  • Interpretation of Legislation.pdf
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  • Investigations and Inquiries.pdf
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  • Joint Committees.pdf
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  • Joint Sessions.pdf
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  • Journal.pdf
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  • Lay Aside Temporarily.pdf
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  • Legislation Reorganization Act.pdf
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  • Legislation Takes Precedence Over Treaties.pdf
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  • Legislation on Senate Resolution Out of Order.pdf
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  • Legislative Sessions.pdf
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  • Lie on Table.pdf
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  • Majority Vote.pdf
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  • Memorial Services.pdf
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  • Mileage Pay for Travel of Senators.pdf
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  • Morning Business.pdf
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  • Morning Hour.pdf
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  • Motions.pdf
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  • Nominations.pdf
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  • Nonprivileged Business.pdf
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  • Officers of the Senate.pdf
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  • Official Reporters - Read Back Transcript.pdf
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  • Order of the Senate.pdf
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  • Over Under the Rule.pdf
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  • Pairs.pdf
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  • Papers.pdf
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  • Parliamentary Inquiry.pdf
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  • Pay Increases.pdf
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  • Pending Business.pdf
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  • Pending Question.pdf
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  • Personal Privilege.pdf
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  • Photographs of the Chamber.pdf
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  • Points of Order.pdf
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  • Postpone, Motion to.pdf
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  • Prayer in Senate.pdf
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  • Preambles.pdf
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  • Preface.pdf
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  • President Pro Tempore.pdf
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  • President of the United States.pdf
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  • Presiding Officer.pdf
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  • Private Bills.pdf
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  • Privileged Business.pdf
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  • Quorum.pdf
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  • Reading.pdf
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  • Recess.pdf
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  • Recognition.pdf
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  • Recommit.pdf
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  • Reconsideration.pdf
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  • References to Committees.pdf
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  • Reorganization Plans.pdf
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  • Reports.pdf
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  • Resolutions.pdf
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  • Revenue.pdf
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  • Rules.pdf
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  • Secretary of the Senate.pdf
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  • Senate Chamber - Display of Charts.pdf
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  • Senate Chamber, Use of Chamber.pdf
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  • Senate Legal Counsel.pdf
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  • Senate.pdf
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  • Sergeant at Arms.pdf
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  • Smoking in Chamber.pdf
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  • Special Orders.pdf
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  • Subpoena.pdf
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  • Sunday Sessions of Senate.pdf
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  • Suspension of Rules.pdf
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  • Table.pdf
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  • Three Readings of Bill and Consideration of Resolution.pdf
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  • Titles of Bills and Resolutions.pdf
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  • Treaties.pdf
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  • Unanimous Consent Agreements.pdf
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  • Unfinished Business.pdf
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  • Vetoes.pdf
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  • Vice President.pdf
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  • Voting.pdf
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  • Washington's Farewell Address.pdf
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