95 96 RULE XIV SWEEPING, CLEANING All sweeping, cleaning, and dusting of the Senate wing of the Capitol shall be done, as far as practicable, immediately after the adjournment of each day's session of the Senate, and must, in any event, be completed before 8 o'clock a.m. RULE XV LEGISLATIVE BUZZERS AND SIGNAL LIGHTS Effective May 15, 1981, the system of legislative buzzers and signal lights shall be as follows: Pre-session signals: One long ring at hour of convening. One red light to remain lighted at all times while Senate is in actual session. Session signals: One ring-Yeas and nays. Two rings-quorum call. Three rings-Call of absentees. Four rings-Adjournment or recess. Five rings-Seven and a half minutes concluded. (Six rings with corresponding lights. Lights cut off immediately.) Recess during daily session. (Six rings with corresponding lights. Lights stay on during period of recess.) Effective July 13, 1967, the legislative call system shall be used for alerting Members of Congress, Congressional employees, and visitors of enemy attack or other major disaster conditions. There will be two signals: 1. Attack warning.-Notification to all occupants that the United States is under attack and that there is real danger of loss of life. This warning would be given by a sequence of two-second sounds of the legislative bells separated by two-second silent intervals. This signal would be repeated for 3 to 5 minutes. 2. Attention signal.—Notification of peacetime disasters, such as accidental presence of radioactive materials or severe weather or natural disaster conditions. This signal would be given by a series of 16-second bell sounds separately by 16-second silent intervals, repeated for 3 to 5 minutes. (Where lights exist they will correspond with rings.) RULE XVI SENATE OFFICE BUILDING 1 AND OTHER SENATE BUILDINGS All provisions of the foregoing rules so far as practicable are made applicable to the Senate Office Buildings, the buildings used for the storage of Senate documents, and the Senate garage. RULE XVII USE OF DISPLAY MATERIALS IN THE SENATE CHAMBER 2 Graphic displays in the Senate Chamber are limited to the following: Charts, photographs, or renderings: Size No larger than 36 inches by 48 inches. Where On an easel stand next to the Senator's desk or at the rear of the Chamber. When-Only at the time the Senator is engaged in de bate. Number No more than two may be displayed at a time. 1See Senate Manual sections 79.8, 79.9. 97 98 [100] RULES OF PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE IN [Revised pursuant to S. Res. 479, 99–2, Aug. 16, 1986] I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the 100 House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately inform the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive the managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment, agreeably to such notice. II. When the managers of an impeachment shall be intro- 101 duced at the bar of the Senate and shall signify that they are ready to exhibit articles of impeachment against any person, the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall direct the Sergeant at Arms to make proclamation, who shall, after making proclamation, repeat the following words, viz: “All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against -"; after which the articles shall be exhibited, and then the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall inform the managers that the Senate will take proper order on the subject of the impeachment, of which due notice shall be given to the House of Representatives. III. Upon such articles being presented to the Senate, 102 the Senate shall, at 1 o'clock afternoon of the day (Sunday excepted) following such presentation, or sooner if ordered by the Senate, proceed to the consideration of such articles and shall continue in session from day to day (Sundays excepted) after the trial shall commence (unless otherwise ordered by the Senate) until final judgment shall be rendered, and so much longer as may, in its judgment, be needful. Before proceeding to the consideration of the articles of impeachment, the Presiding Officer shall administer 103 104 105 106 the oath hereinafter provided to the members of the Senate then present and to the other members of the Senate as they shall appear, whose duty it shall be to take the same. IV. When the President of the United States or the Vice President of the United States, upon whom the powers and duties of the Office of President shall have devolved, shall be impeached, the Chief Justice of the United States shall preside; and in a case requiring the said Chief Justice to preside notice shall be given to him by the Presiding Officer of the Senate of the time and place fixed for the consideration of the articles of impeachment, as aforesaid, with a request to attend; and the said Chief Justice shall be administered the oath by the Presiding Officer of the Senate and shall preside over the Senate during the consideration of said articles and upon the trial of the person impeached therein. V. The Presiding Officer shall have power to make and issue, by himself or by the Secretary of the Senate, all orders, mandates, writs, and precepts authorized by these rules or by the Senate, and to make and enforce such other regulations and orders in the premises as the Senate may authorize or provide. VI. The Senate shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, to enforce obedience to its orders, mandates, writs, precepts, and judgments, to preserve order, and to punish in a summary way contempts of, and disobedience to, its authority, orders, mandates, writs, precepts, or judgments, and to make all lawful orders, rules, and regulations which it may deem essential or conducive to the ends of justice. And the Sergeant at Arms, under the direction of the Senate, may employ such aid and assistance as may be necessary to enforce, execute, and carry into effect the lawful orders, mandates, writs, and precepts of the Senate. VII. The Presiding Officer of the Senate shall direct all necessary preparations in the Senate Chamber, and the Presiding Officer on the trial shall direct all the forms of proceedings while the Senate is sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment, and all forms during the trial not otherwise specially provided for. And the Presiding Officer on the trial may rule on all questions of evidence including, but not limited to, questions of relevancy, materiality, and redundancy of evidence and incidental questions, which ruling shall stand as the judgment of the Senate, unless some Member of the Senate shall ask that a formal vote |