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.

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[edit] Membership, 110th Congress

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and the Co-Chairman is Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska.

Majority
Member State
Daniel Inouye, Chairman 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
Mark Pryor Arkansas
Tom Carper Delaware
Claire McCaskill Missouri
Amy Klobuchar Minnesota
Minority
Member State
Ted Stevens, Co-Chairman Alaska
John McCain Arizona
Trent Lott Mississippi
Kay Bailey Hutchison Texas
Olympia Snowe Maine
Gordon Smith Oregon
John Ensign Nevada
John E. Sununu New Hampshire
Jim DeMint South Carolina
David Vitter Louisiana
John Thune South Dakota

[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

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