‘The tail wagging the dog’: Senate Rules Committee stuck on question of privileges for non-partisan Senate groups

Conservative Senators are looking to maintain special status and privileges granted to the opposition and not currently available to other recognized groups that have formed in recent years.

The Senate Rules Committee has been working for several months to find consensus on rule changes that would promote equity between different parties and groups within the Senate. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

February 8, 2023

Senators who have bought in to the idea of a new, non-partisan Senate are looking to create more parity between newer groups within the Senate and the lone remaining party-affiliated caucus in the Red Chamber, but Conservative Senators have objected to proposed rule changes ...

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