A resolution amending the Standing Rules of the Senate to provide that it is not in order in a committee to ask questions regarding a presidential nominee's religious affiliation.
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Introduced
Latest Action · July 31, 2003
Submitted in the Senate. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Over, Under the Rule.
Amends rule XXVI (Committee procedure) of the Standing Rules of the Senate to provide that in any proceeding of a committee considering a nomination made by the President of the United States to the Senate, it shall not be in order to ask any question of the nominee relating to his or her religious affiliation.
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