United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

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The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (also called the Senate Rules Committee) is responsible for the rules of the United States Senate, with administration of congressional buildings, and with credentials and qualifications of members of the Senate, including responsibility for dealing with contested elections.

The committee is not as powerful as its House counterpart, the House Committee on Rules: it does not set the terms of debate for individual legislative proposals, since the Senate has a tradition of open debate.

Some members of the committee are also ex officio members of the Joint Committee on Printing.

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[edit] History

The Committee was first created as the Select Committee to Revise the Rules of the Senate on December 3, 1867. On December 9, 1874 it became a standing committee: Committee on Rules.

On January 2, 1947 its name was changed to the Committee on Rules and Administration, and it took over the functions of the following committees:

[edit] Members, 110th Congress

[edit] Democrats

Senator State
Dianne Feinstein, Chairwoman California
Christopher J. Dodd Connecticut
Robert Byrd West Virginia
Daniel Inouye Hawaii
Charles Schumer New York
Richard Durbin Illinois
Ben Nelson Nebraska
Byron Dorgan North Dakota
Patty Murray Washington
Mark Pryor Arkansas

[edit] Republicans

Senator State
Thad Cochran, Ranking Minority Member Mississippi
C. Trent Lott Mississippi
Ted Stevens Alaska
Mitch McConnell Kentucky
Saxby Chambliss Georgia
Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas
Robert Bennett Utah
Chuck Hagel Nebraska

[edit] Chairmen

[edit] Select Committee to Revise the Rules of the Senate, 1867-1874

[edit] Committee on Rules, 1874-1947

[edit] Committee on Rules and Administration, 1947-present

[edit] External link

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(list)		 Agriculture • Appropriations • Armed Services • Budget • Education and the Workforce • Energy and Commerce • Financial Services • Government Reform • Homeland Security • House Administration • Hurricane Katrina (Select) • Intelligence (Permanent Select) • International Relations • Judiciary • Resources • Rules • Science • Small Business • Standards of Official Conduct • Transportation and Infrastructure • Veterans' Affairs • Ways and Means • (Whole)
Senate
(list)		 Aging (Special) • Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry • Appropriations • Armed Services • Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs • Budget • Commerce, Science and Transportation • Energy and Natural Resources • Ethics (Select) • Environment and Public Works • Finance • Foreign Relations • Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions • Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs • Indian Affairs • Intelligence (Select) • Judiciary • Rules and Administration • Small Business and Entrepreneurship • Veterans' Affairs
Joint (Conference) • Economic • Library • Printing • Taxation  Defunct committees 
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