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    Emeritus Floyd Riddick, and is updated periodically by the Senate Parliamentarian. Riddick's Senate Procedure included over ten thousand U.S. Senate precedents...
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  • style. Riddick's Rules is a book of common parliamentary usage for civic clubs and organizations. Riddick also wrote Riddick's Senate Procedure that contains...
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    23, 2009. "Committee on Intelligence" from Riddick's Senate Procedure "Rules of Procedure" (PDF). U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Archived...
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    United States, 1789–1993 (essays reprinted online) Frumin, Alan S. Riddick's Senate Procedure. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1992. Listen to...
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  • the Senate. While several framers of the U.S. Constitution, such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, believed that the required role of the Senate is...
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    The Senate Filibuster Ain’t What it Used To Be", The Washington Monthly, Nov. 1996, at 34–36. Alan S. Frumin, "Cloture Procedure," in Riddick's Senate Procedure...
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    Retrieved December 18, 2012. Frumin, Alan S. "Appropriations" in Riddick's Senate Procedure, 150–213. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1992....
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    (1992). Riddick's Senate Procedure. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Standing Rules of the Senate (PDF) (Report). United States Senate Committee...
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  • States Senate." Public Budgeting and Finance, vol. 18, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 87–93. Frumin, Alan S. "Congressional Budget" in Riddick's Senate Procedure, 502–642...
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    is most famous for developing Riddick's Senate procedure. He sat immediately below the presiding officer in the Senate chamber, providing information...
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    Cloture (category Motions (parliamentary procedure))
    5/28/2011. Riddick, Floyd M. (1992). Riddick's Senate Procedure (PDF). Government Printing Office. Frumin, Aliyah (21 November 2013). "Senate smacks down...
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  • the original on 14 January 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019. "Riddick's Senate Procedure – 101st Congress, 2d Session, Page 335" (PDF). Archived from the...
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    a list of African Americans who have served in the United States Senate. The Senate has had 12 African-American elected or appointed officeholders. Two...
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    ISBN 0-89158-495-1. Frumin, Alan S. (1992). "Congressional Budget" (PDF). Riddick's Senate Procedure. 502–642. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Keith...
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    Congress.gov. Riddick, Floyd M., and Alan S. Frumin. "Committee on Small Business" in Riddick's Senate Procedure, 378–81. United States Senate, 101st Congress...
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  • happened, though both the House and Senate have done so individually) the action would, according to parliamentary procedure, be in the form of a concurrent...
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  • Nuclear option (category Parliamentary procedure)
    Reconciliation (United States Congress) Up or down vote Riddick, Floyd M. (1992). Riddick's Senate Procedure. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. "Nuclear...
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    at the Wayback Machine Riddick, Floyd M., and Alan S. Frumin. “Conferences and Conference Reports” in Riddick's Senate Procedure, 449–93. Washington, D...
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    organization and operations of both chambers of the United States Congress—the Senate and the House of Representatives—since its establishment as the bicameral...
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  • Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure (Demeter), Riddick's Rules of Procedure (Riddick/Butcher), Bourinot's Rules of Order (Bourinot), and Rules...
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  • University Floyd M. Riddick – Parliamentarian of the United States Senate from 1964 to 1974, and developer of Riddick's Senate procedure William H. Riker...
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  • speeches per day on a question. Riddick's Rules of Procedure also specifies a default limit of ten minutes. The United States Senate has a limit of two speeches...
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    Alan Frumin (category Parliamentarians of the United States Senate)
    joining the Senate Parliamentarian's Office in 1977. He is the editor of Riddick's Senate Procedure, the official authoritative compilation of Senate precedents...
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    Congress. Retrieved October 22, 2007. Terkel, Amanda (September 27, 2012). "Senate Likely To Remain Without Black Members For Years". HuffPost. Retrieved February...
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  • veto" by only one chamber of Congress. The act provided that either the Senate or the House of Representatives could annul an executive order issued by...
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  • (1993–1994) Floyd M. Riddick (M.A. 1932) – parliamentarian of the United States Senate (1964 to 1974), developed Riddick's Senate procedure Jim Sasser (B.A...
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    and parliamentary procedure. Incumbent parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has held the office since 2012, appointed by then-Senate majority leader Harry...
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  • "Soong Mei-ling, "Addresses to the House of Respresentatives and to the Senate," February 18, 1943". USC US-China Institute. "HD Historic Archival Stock...
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    Chairperson (category Parliamentary procedure)
    "in the chair" and is also referred to as "the chair". Parliamentary procedure requires that members address the "chair" as "Mr. (or Madam) Chairman...
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  • Stopping the clock (category Parliamentary procedure)
    the purpose of meeting a constitutional or statutory deadline. Riddick's Rules of Procedure notes, "The official clock is stopped by agreement of the 'powers...
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