The rules of the House determine the special legislative days that have been established to expedite certain types of non-privileged matters. The special legislative days are: calendar Wednesday (every Wednesday), the District of Columbia (second and fourth Monday), suspension of rules (every Monday and Tuesday), and correction schedule (first and third Mondays). Private calendar transactions, if any, are processed on the first and third Tuesday of each month and discharge requests on the second and fourth Mondays. The day after the Senate was first organized, a doorman was elected, whose title was eventually changed to Sergeant-at-Arms. Its task is to carry out the Senate`s orders on decency on the floor and in the galleries. He is responsible for enforcing all the rules enacted to regulate the Senate wing of the Capitol. He is also the custodian of all property under Senate rule and supervises messengers, pages and other workers who serve the Senate. If the Senate decides to issue arrest warrants for its absent members, it is the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to detain those senators. The Senate, in its rules and practices, has always emphasized the importance of decency in its deliberations. Rule XXX provides that a treaty shall be open for one day before the Senate considers it in executive session; Then it can be read a second time, after which amendments can be proposed.
At any stage of this process, the Senate may withdraw the secrecy order from the contract. If there is no further debate or amendment to the treaty, the Senate considers a ratification decision. Finally, there is the designation “S. Res. ___” for resolutions of the Senate that serve primarily to express only the subject matter of the Senate or to deal with matters of a housekeeping nature, including changes to the rules that apply only to the Senate. The legislative process in the Senate strikes a balance between the rights guaranteed to senators by the Permanent Rules and the need for senators to waive some of those rights in order to expedite proceedings. Rule XXVI on the comitology procedure provides that each committee shall issue rules (which are not contrary to the Rules of Procedure of the Senate) governing the procedure of that committee. It also provides that the rules of each committee must be published in the minutes of the Congress no later than March 1 of each year, unless such a commission is published on or after March 1. The by-laws of the committee shall be published in the minutes within 60 days after the year of its establishment.
An amendment to the rules of procedure of a committee shall be published no later than 30 days after its adoption. The Rules of the Senate state that no senator may make more than two speeches on a motion or bill on the same legislative day (a legislative day begins when the Senate meets and ends when it adjourns; therefore, it does not necessarily coincide with the calendar day). The length of these speeches is not limited by the rules; Thus, in most cases, senators can speak for as long as they wish. Often, the Senate enters into unanimous consents that set deadlines. In other cases (e.g. for the budget process), limits are imposed by law. In general, however, the right to unlimited debate remains. Committees do not have to vote on every bill before them. Under the Rules of the Senate, a senator may move a motion to relieve a committee of further consideration of a bill, but this is rarely done. Approved unanimously, some bills are passed by one committee and referred to another.