UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION

(Redirected from U.S. 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, 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.

Contents

History

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 links

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:

★ 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, 110th Congress==

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

Chairmen

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–

External links

★ Official site