art, and pictures in the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings; Services to the Senate, including the Senate restaurant; and, United States Capitol and congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution (and the incorporation of similar institutions), and the Botanic Gardens. The Senate Rules Committee is also charged: To make a continuing study of the organization and operation of the Congress of the United States and shall recommend improvements in such organization and operation with a view toward strengthening the Congress, simplifying its operations, improving its relationships with other branches of the United States Government, and enabling it better to meet its responsibilities under the Constitution of the United States; To identify any court proceeding or action which, in the opinion of the Committee, is of vital interest to the Congress as a constitutionally established institution of the Federal Government and call such proceeding or action to the attention of the Senate; and, To develop, implement, and update as necessary a strategic planning process and a strategic plan for the functional and technical infrastructure support of the Senate and provide oversight over plans developed by Senate officers and others in accordance with the strategic planning process. Members, 118th Congress Members, 117th Congress Chairs 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)