Senate Committee on Rules and Administration

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Senate Committee on Rules and Administration has 17 members, made up of 9 Republicans and 8 Democrats. Mitch McConnell chairs it. Alex Padilla is the ranking member, which is the senior post held by the minority party. Senate committee seats are held for the length of a senator term, so membership turns over more slowly than in the House. The membership below is generated from the roster this site maintains against clerk.house.gov and senate.gov.

Jurisdiction source: Senate Rule XXV

How business reaches this committee

Senate Rule XXV lists the subjects above and assigns them here. A bill introduced in the Senate is referred to the committee whose Rule XXV jurisdiction covers its main subject, so measures on these topics start with this committee. From there it can hold hearings, amend the text, report the bill to the full Senate, or leave it alone, which is what happens to most bills.

Subcommittees

The committee has no subcommittees. Every hearing, markup and vote happens in full committee, which keeps the whole membership on the same set of questions.

Without subcommittees every member takes part in each hearing and each markup. That keeps one record instead of two, and a bill gets a single hearing rather than a subcommittee hearing followed by a full committee hearing.

Who serves on it

17 senators sit on the committee: 9 Republicans and 8 Democrats. That gives the majority 9 of the 17 seats. Mitch McConnell is the chairman. Alex Padilla is the ranking member. They come from 16 states.

Following its work

Hearing notices, markup schedules, witness lists and published reports live on the committee’s own site, linked at the top of this page. The full member list below links to each member’s page here, with contact details and the seat they hold. For background on how seats and chairs are handed out, read How congressional committees work. For what happens to a bill after a committee reports it, read How a bill becomes law. To look up who represents a particular place, start at U.S. senators by state.

Members

17 members. Generated from the roster this site holds, checked against the Clerk of the House and the Senate committee lists on September 26, 2026.

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