IN THE SENATE Clause Samples
The "IN THE SENATE" clause serves to indicate that a particular legislative action, bill, or resolution is being introduced, considered, or processed within the United States Senate. This designation typically appears at the beginning of legislative documents to clarify the chamber of Congress responsible for the measure. By specifying the Senate as the forum, the clause ensures procedural clarity and helps track the progress and origin of legislative items, thereby preventing confusion between actions taken in the Senate versus the House of Representatives.
IN THE SENATE. In the Senate, no’’, strike ‘‘of either House’’ and ‘‘in that House’’, strike ‘‘of that House’’, and add at the end the following new subsection:
IN THE SENATE. It shall not be in order in the Senate to consider a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for a full fiscal year, or an amendment thereto, amendment between the Houses in relation thereto, conference report thereon, or motion thereon, that includes a CHIMP that, if enacted, would cause the absolute value of the total budget authority of all such CHIMPs enacted in relation to a full fiscal year to be more than the amount specified in paragraph (3).