S.Amdt. 3775

SA 3775. Mr. WYDEN (for himself and Mr. Grassley) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 3739 proposed by Mr.
Reid (for Mr. Dodd (for himself and Mrs. Lincoln)) to the bill S. 3217,
to promote the financial stability of the United States by improving
accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end ``too
big to fail'', to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to
protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of the amendment, insert the following:

TITLE ___--ELIMINATING SECRET SENATE HOLDS

SEC. ___. ELIMINATING SECRET SENATE HOLDS.

Rule VII of the Standing Rules of the Senate is amended by
adding at the end the following:
``7. (a) The majority and minority leaders of the Senate or
their designees shall recognize a notice of intent of a
Senator who is a member of their caucus to object to
proceeding to a measure or matter only if the Senator--
``(1) submits the notice of intent in writing to the
appropriate leader or their designee and grants in the notice
permission for the leader or designee to object in the
Senator's name; and
``(2) not later than 2 session days after the submission
under clause (1), submits for inclusion in the Congressional
Record and in the applicable calendar section described in
subparagraph (b) the following notice:
`` `I, Senator ___, intend to object to proceeding to ___,
dated ___.'
``(b) The Secretary of the Senate shall maintain for both
the Senate Calendar of Business and the Senate Executive
Calendar a separate section entitled `Notices of Intent to
Object to Proceeding'. Each section shall include the name of
each Senator filing a notice under subparagraph (a)(2), the
measure or matter covered by the calendar that the Senator
objects to, and the date the objection was filed.
``(c) A Senator may have an item relating to that Senator
removed from a calendar to which it was added under
subparagraph (b) by submitting for inclusion in the
Congressional Record the following notice:
`` `I, Senator ___, do not object to proceeding to ____,
dated ____.'.''.
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