2 U.S.C. § 30b — Notice of objecting to proceeding

(a) In general: The Senate's Majority and Minority Leaders — or the people they designate — will only recognize a Senator's formal notice of intent to object under two conditions. First, the Senator has to already have objected, out loud, to a unanimous consent request to take up, or pass, a bill or other matter. After that, the Senator must submit the objection in writing to the relevant leader or their designee. Second, within 6 session days of submitting that written objection, the Senator must file a specific statement for the Congressional Record and for the calendar described in subsection (b). The statement must read: "I, Senator ____, intend to object to proceedings to ____, dated ____ for the following reasons ____." (b) Calendar: The Secretary of the Senate must create a separate section, called "Notice of Intent to Object to Proceeding," on both the Senate Calendar of Business and the Senate Executive Calendar. That section must list, for each notice filed under subsection (a)(2): the name of the Senator who filed it; which bill or matter the Senator is objecting to; and the date the objection was filed. If a Senator already notified their leader and then withdrew the objection within the 6-session-day window, that Senator does not have to file the formal statement required by subsection (a)(2). (c) Removal: A Senator can have their own objection taken off the calendar. To do this, the Senator files a statement for the Congressional Record that reads: "I, Senator ____, do not object to proceed to ____, dated ____."