SENATE PRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS' GALLERY
RULES GOVERNING GALLERY
- 1. (a) Administration of the Press Photographers' Gallery is vested
in a Standing Committee of Press Photographers consisting of six persons
elected by accredited members of the Gallery. The Committee shall be composed
of one member each from Associated Press Photos; Reuters News Pictures
or AFP Photos; magazine media; local newspapers; agency or freelance member;
and one at-large member. The at-large member may be, but need not be,
selected from media otherwise represented on the Committee; however no
organization may have more than one representative on the Committee.
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- (b) The term of office of a member of the Committee elected as the
Associated Press Photos member, the local newspaper member, and the Reuters
News Pictures or AFP Photos member shall expire on the day of the election
held in the first odd-numbered year following the year in which the member
was elected, and the term of office of a member of the Committee elected
as the magazine media member, the agency or freelance member and the at-large
members shall expire on the day of the election held in the first even-numbered
year following the year in which the member was elected. A member elected
to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of a term shall serve
for only the unexpired portion of such term.
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- (c) Elections shall be held as early as practicable in each year,
and in no case later than March 31. A vacancy in the membership of the
Committee occurring prior to the expiration of a term shall be filled by
a special election called for that purpose by the Committee.
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- (d) The Standing Committee of the Press Photographers' Gallery shall
propose no change or changes in these rules except upon petition in writing
signed by not less than 25 accredited members of the gallery.
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- 2. Persons desiring admission to the Press Photographers' Gallery of
the Senate shall make application in accordance with Rule 33 of the Senate,
which rule shall be interpreted and administered by the Standing Committee
of Press Photographers subject to the review and approval of the Senate
Committee on Rules and Administration.
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- 3. The Standing Committee of Press photographers shall limit membership
in the photographers' gallery to bona fide news photographers of repute
in their profession and Heads of Photographic Bureaus under such rules
as the Standing Committee of Press Photographers shall prescribe.
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- 4. Provided, however, that the Standing Committee of Press Photographers
shall admit to the gallery no person who does not establish to the satisfaction
of the Committee all of the following:
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(a) That any member is not engaged in paid publicity or promotion work
or in prosecuting any claim before Congress or before any department of
the Government, and will not become so engaged while a member of the gallery.
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- (b) That he or she is not engaged in any lobbying activity and will
not become so engaged while a member of the gallery.
- The above rules have been approved by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
