United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (also called the Senate Rules Committee) is responsible for the rules of the United States Senate, 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 as 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.

History 1
Members, 113th Congress 2
Chairmen 3
- Select Committee to Revise the Rules of the Senate, 1867–1874 3.1
- Committee on Rules, 1874–1947 3.2
- Committee on Rules and Administration, 1947–present 3.3
Notes 4
External links 5

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.

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:

Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor (functions were later transferred to Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee)
Committee on Enrolled Bills
Committee on Privileges and Elections

Members, 113th Congress

Majority	Minority
Chuck Schumer, New York, Chairman Dianne Feinstein, California Dick Durbin, Illinois Patty Murray, Washington Mark Pryor, Arkansas Tom Udall, New Mexico Mark Warner, Virginia Patrick Leahy, Vermont Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota John Walsh, Montana Angus King, Maine^[1]	Pat Roberts, Kansas, Ranking Member Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Thad Cochran, Mississippi Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Richard Shelby, Alabama Roy Blunt, Missouri Ted Cruz, Texas

Source:

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

1867–1871: Henry B. Anthony (R-RI)
1871–1873: Samuel Pomeroy (R-KS)
1873–1874: Thomas Ferry (R-MI)

Committee on Rules, 1874–1947

Thomas Ferry (R-MI) 1874–1877
James G. Blaine (R-ME) 1877–1879
John T. Morgan (D-AL) 1879–1881
William P. Frye (R-ME) 1881–1887
Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI) 1887–1893
Joseph C. S. Blackburn (D-KY) 1893–1895
Nelson W. Aldrich (R-RI) 1895–1899
John C. Spooner (R-WI) 1899–1907
Philander C. Knox (R-PA) 1907–1909
W. Murray Crane (R-MA) 1909–1913
Lee S. Overman (D-NC) 1913–1919
Philander C. Knox (R-PA) 1919–1921
Charles Curtis (R-KS) 1921–1929
George H. Moses (R-NH) 1929–1933
Royal S. Copeland (D-NY) 1933–1936
Matthew M. Neely (D-WV) 1936–1941
Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) 1941–1947

Committee on Rules and Administration, 1947–present

C. Wayland Brooks (R-IL) 1947–1949
Carl Hayden (D-AZ) 1949–1953
William E. Jenner (R-IN) 1953–1955
Theodore F. Green (D-RI) 1955–1957
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (D-MO) 1957–1960
Mike Mansfield (D-MT) 1960–1963
B. Everett Jordan (D-NC) 1963–1973
Howard W. Cannon (D-NV) 1973–1978
Claiborne Pell (D-RI) 1978–1981
Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (R-MD) 1981–1987
Wendell H. Ford (D-KY) 1987–1995
Ted Stevens (R-AK) 1995
John W. Warner (R-VA) 1995–1999
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 1999–2001
Christopher Dodd (D-CT) 2001
Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 2001
Christopher Dodd (D-CT) 2001–2003
Trent Lott (R-MS) 2003–2007
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), 2007–2009
Chuck Schumer (D-NY), 2009–present

Notes

^ Angus King is an independent, but caucuses with the Democrats.

External links

Official site
Members of the Rules Committee
Senate Rules and Administration Committee member profiles collected news and commentary at The Washington Post

Current United States congressional committees

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 Environment and Public Works Ethics (Select) Finance Foreign Relations Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Indian Affairs Intelligence (Select) Judiciary Narcotics (Caucus) Rules and Administration Small Business and Entrepreneurship Veterans' Affairs

House (list)	Agriculture Appropriations Armed Services Budget Education and the Workforce Energy and Commerce Ethics Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi (Select) Financial Services Foreign Affairs Homeland Security House Administration Intelligence (Permanent Select) Judiciary Natural Resources Oversight and Government Reform Rules Science, Space and Technology Small Business Transportation and Infrastructure Veterans' Affairs Ways and Means (Whole)

Joint (list)	(Conference) Economic Inaugural Ceremonies (Special) Library Printing Taxation

Defunct committees

Categories

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Committees of the United States Senate
1867 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1867

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