Political Quotes

“Yes. I asked if, under the rules, all committee Senate records are the property of the Senate as a whole and that all Senators shall have access to those records--shall have access. The Presiding Officer said: Yes, those are, in part, the rules. Of course, those are not all of the rules. Is there anything the Presiding Officer knows in the rules that would undercut that ruling in the Senate rules? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Rule 10(a) reads as follows: All committee hearings, records, data, charts, and files shall be kept separate and distinct from the congressional office records of the Member serving as chairman of the committee; and such records shall be the property of the Senate and all members of the committee and the Senate shall have access to such records. Each committee is authorized to have printed and bound such testimony and other data presented at hearings held by the committee.”