A resolution to amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to reverse the current presumption that sensitive matters that are the subject of Senate meetings or hearings will be open to the public unless a majority of the Members vote to hold a closed session.

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Amends rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate to require that a meeting or hearings by a Senate committee or subcommittee to discuss specified sensitive issues must be closed to the public, unless a majority of committee members determine, by a recorded vote, to open them to the public.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

  Introduced in Senate · EN

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 24 October 1991

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