United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

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The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is a standing committee of the United States Senate in charge of all senate matters related to the following subjects:

  • Coast Guard
  • Coastal zone management
  • Communications
  • Highway safety
  • Inland waterways, except construction
  • Interstate commerce
  • Marine and ocean navigation, safety, and transportation
  • Marine fisheries
  • Merchant marine and navigation
  • Nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences
  • Oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities
  • Panama Canal and other interoceanic canals
  • Regulation of consumer products and services, including testing related to toxic substances, other than pesticides, and except for credit, financial services, and housing
  • Regulation of interstate common carriers, including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil aviation
  • Science, engineering, and technology research and development and policy
  • Sports
  • Standards and measurement
  • Transportation
  • Transportation and commerce aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands

It also studies and reviews matters relating to science and technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications, and consumer affairs, and reports on those findings.

The current chairman is Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, and the ranking Democrat is Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.

Contents

[edit] Current Membership

In the 109th Congress

[edit] Republicans

Senator State
Theodore F. Stevens, Chairman Alaska
John McCain Arizona
Conrad Burns Montana
Trent Lott Mississippi
Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas
Olympia Snowe Maine
Gordon Smith Oregon
John Ensign Nevada
George Allen Virginia
John E. Sununu New Hampshire
Jim DeMint South Carolina
David Vitter Louisiana

[edit] Democrats

Senator State
Daniel K. Inouye, Ranking Minority Member Hawaii
Jay Rockefeller West Virginia
John Kerry Massachusetts
Byron Dorgan North Dakota
Barbara Boxer California
Bill Nelson Florida
Maria Cantwell Washington
Frank Lautenberg New Jersey
Ben Nelson Nebraska
Mark Pryor Arkansas

[edit] Subcommittees

[edit] History

The original progenitors of this committee were:

[edit] Chairmen

[edit] Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, 1816-1825

[edit] Committee on Commerce, 1825-1927

[edit] Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1887-1947

[edit] Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1947-1961

[edit] Committee on Commerce, 1961-1977

[edit] Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1977-present

[edit] External links

Current United States Congressional committees
House
(list)		 Agriculture • Appropriations • Armed Services • Budget • Education and the Workforce • Energy and Commerce • Financial Services • Government Reform • Homeland Security • House Administration • Intelligence (Permanent Select) • International Relations • Judiciary • Resources • Rules • Science • Small Business • Standards of Official Conduct • Transportation and Infrastructure • Veterans' Affairs • Ways and Means • (Whole)
Senate
(list)		 Aging (Special) • Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry • Appropriations • Armed Services • Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs • Budget • Commerce, Science and Transportation • Energy and Natural Resources • Ethics (Select) • Environment and Public Works • Finance • Foreign Relations • Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions • Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs • Indian Affairs • Intelligence (Select) • Judiciary • Rules and Administration • Small Business and Entrepreneurship • Veterans' Affairs
Joint (Conference) • Economic • Library • Printing • Taxation  Defunct committees 
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