United States Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration (also known as Senate Rules Committee ) is a standing committee of the Senate of the United States. He is responsible for the Rules of Procedure of the Senate, the administration of the Senate building and the qualifications of senators. This also means that it deals with controversial elections to the Senate.

Compared to its sister committee in the House of Representatives, the House Committee on Rules, but it is less influential. The Senate allows its individual members traditionally far more freedom within the rules so that the control has also less impact on what happens in the Senate.

Some members are ex officio members of the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee on the Library.

  • 3.1 Select Committee to Revise the Rules of the Senate, 1867-1874
  • 3.2 Committee on Rules, 1874-1947
  • 3.3 Committee on Rules and Administration, since 1947

History

The Committee began on December 3, 1867 as the temporary committee. The "Select Committee to Revise the Rules of the Senate " was transferred on 9 December 1874 in the Standing Committee, " United States Senate Committee on Rules".

Since 2 January 1947, he assumed its present name; at the same time he took over the functions of some older and then resolved committees:

  • Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate
  • Committee on Enrolled Bills
  • Committee on Privileges and Elections

Members in the 113th Congress

Democrats

Republican

Former Chairman

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

Committee on Rules, 1874-1947

Committee on Rules and Administration, since 1947

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