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The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (also called the Senate Rules Committee) is responsible for the rules 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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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:

Members,

Republicans

Senator State |- |bgcolor=| C. Trent Lott, Chairman Mississippi |- |bgcolor=| Ted Stevens Alaska |- |bgcolor=| Mitch McConnell Kentucky |- |bgcolor=| Thad Cochran Mississippi |- |bgcolor=| Rick Santorum Pennsylvania |- |bgcolor=| Bill Frist Tennessee |- |bgcolor=| Saxby Chambliss Georgia |- |bgcolor=| Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas |- |bgcolor=| Robert Bennett Utah |- |bgcolor=| Chuck Hagel Nebraska

Democrats

Senator State |- |bgcolor=| Christopher J. Dodd, Ranking Minority Member Connecticut |- |bgcolor=| Robert Byrd West Virginia |- |bgcolor=| Daniel Inouye Hawaii |- |bgcolor=| Dianne Feinstein California |- |bgcolor=| Charles Schumer New York |- |bgcolor=| Mark Dayton Minnesota |- |bgcolor=| Ben Nelson Nebraska

Chairmen

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

Committee on Rules, 1874-1947

Committee on Rules and Administration, 1947-present

External link

Current United States Congressional committees
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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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