Standing Rules of the Senate
RULE XXXIII
SENATE CHAMBER - SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL
1. The Senate Chamber shall not be granted for any other purpose
than for the use of the Senate; no smoking shall be permitted at any time on
the floor of the Senate, or lighted cigars, cigarettes, or pipes be brought
into the Chamber.
2. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Rules and Administration
to make all rules and regulations respecting such parts of the Capitol, its
passages and galleries, including the restaurant and the Senate Office Buildings,
as are or may be set apart for the use of the Senate and its officers, to be
enforced under the direction of the Presiding Officer. The Committee shall make
such regulations respecting the reporters' galleries of the Senate, together
with the adjoining rooms and facilities, as will confine their occupancy and
use to bona fide reporters of newspapers and periodicals, and of news or press
associations for daily news dissemination through radio, television, wires,
and cables, and similar media of transmission. These regulations shall so provide
for the use of such space and facilities as fairly to distribute their use to
all such media of news dissemination.
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