A resolution to amend rule XXV relative to open meetings of standing committees.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Provides that all meetings for the transaction of business of each standing committee or subcommittee of the Senate shall be open to the public. Allows a committee or subcommittee to which this paragraph applies to conduct meetings closed to the public if the committee or subcommittee in open session and with 50 percent or more of its members present determines by rollcall vote that all or part of the meeting to be held on that day should be closed to the public because disclosure of matters to be considered at the meeting would: (1) endanger the national security; (2) relate solely to matters of committee staff personnel or internal staff management or procedure; (3) tend to charge with crime or misconduct, or to disgrace, injure the professional standing or otherwise expose to public contempt any individual, or will represent a clearly unwarranted invasion of the privacy of any individual; (4) disclose the identity of any informer or law enforcement agent or of any information relating to the investigation or prosecution of a criminal offense that is required to be kept secret in the interests of effective law enforcement; (5) disclose information relating to trade secrets or fin…