The Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, also called the Senate Rules and Administration 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 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.

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: In accordance of Rule XXV of the United States Senate, all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating primarily to the following subjects is referred to the Senate Rules Committee: The Senate Rules Committee is also charged: Source: "U.S. Senate Committee on Rules and Administration".

Senate rules committee website.

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