Resolution to amend rule XII of the standing rules of the Senate.

Provides that a Senator who is presiding at a hearing of a committee of the Senate, a joint committee of the Congress, or any subcommittee of any such committee or joint committee, may vote yea or nay without being present to cast his vote if: (1) he notifies the leader of his party in the Senate, prior to the decision on the vote having been announced by the Presiding Officer, that he is presiding at a hearing while the vote is being conducted; (2) he requests that leader to cast his vote and how that vote shall be cast; and (3) that leader, prior to the announcement of such decision, obtains unanimous consent of the Senate to so cast the vote of the Senator.