Officers of the Senate

Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

The Road to Civil War

Visualize

Officers of the Senate

(non-voting)

Members (3):

Name	Visualize	Details	Delegations
John C. Breckinridge	Visualize	President of the Senate of the Thirty-Sixth Congress.	Officers of the Senate (This negotiation)
Rev. Phineas D. Gurley	Visualize	Chaplain of the Senate of the Thirty-Sixth Congress.	Officers of the Senate (This negotiation)
Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland	Visualize	Chaplain of the Senate of the Forty-Third Congress	Officers of the Senate (This negotiation) , Officers of the Senate (The Civil Rights Act of 1875)