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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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:

Majority
Member State
  Dianne Feinstein, Chairwoman California
  Robert Byrd West Virginia
  Daniel Inouye Hawaii
  Christopher J. Dodd Connecticut
  Charles Schumer New York
  Richard Durbin Illinois
  Ben Nelson Nebraska
  Harry Reid Nevada
  Patty Murray Washington
  Mark Pryor Arkansas
Minority
Member State
  Robert Bennett, Ranking Minority Member Utah
  Ted Stevens Alaska
  Mitch McConnell Kentucky
  Thad Cochran Mississippi
  Trent Lott Mississippi
  Saxby Chambliss Georgia
  Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas
  Chuck Hagel Nebraska
  Lamar Alexander Tennessee



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Current United States Congressional committees
House
(list)		 Agriculture • Appropriations • Armed Services • Budget • Education and Labor • Energy and Commerce • Financial Services • Foreign Affairs • Homeland Security • House Administration • Intelligence (Permanent Select) • Judiciary • Natural Resources • Oversight and Government Reform • Rules • Science and Technology • 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 • Narcotics Control • Rules and Administration • Small Business and Entrepreneurship • Veterans' Affairs
Joint (list)
(Conference) • Economic • Library • Printing • Taxation Defunct committees
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