    [United States Senate Manual, 112th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 112-1]
    [Standing Rules of the Senate]
    [Pages 59-60]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

            33                           RULE XXXIII

                         SENATE CHAMBER--SENATE WING OF THE CAPITOL

          33.1      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.
          33.2      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

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                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.