U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
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.
SubcommitteesU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation*Chairman - Trent Lott, R-Mississippi*Ranking Member - Jay Rockefeller, D-West VirginiaU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications*Chairman - Conrad Burns, R-Montana*Ranking Member - Fritz Hollings, D-South CarolinaU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure*Chairman - Gordon Smith, R-Oregon*Ranking Member - Byron Dorgan, D-North DakotaU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Product Safety*Chairman - Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois*Ranking Member - Ron Wyden, D-OregonU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and Coast Guard*Chairman - Olympia Snowe, R-Maine*Ranking Member - John Kerry, D-MassachusettsU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space*Chairman - Sam Brownback, R-Kansas*Ranking Member - John Breaux, D-LouisianaU.S. Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine*Chairman - Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas*Ranking Member - Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii History The original progenitors of this committee were: Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (1816-1825) Committee on Commerce (1825-1946, 1961-1977) Committee on Manufactures (1825-1855, 1864-1946) Committee on Interstate Commerce (1885-1946) Committee on Interoceanic Canals (1899-1946) Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1946-1961) Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (1958-1977)
ChairmenChairmen of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, 1816-1825William Hunter (F-RI) 1816-1817Nathan Sanford (R-NY) 1817-1820Mahlon Dickerson (R-NJ) 1820-1825
Chairmen of the Committee on Commerce, 1825-1927James Lloyd (NR-MA) 1825-1826Josiah Johnston (NR-LA) 1826-1827Levi Woodbury (D-NH) 1827-1831John Forsyth (D-GA) 1831-1832William R. King (D-AL) 1832-1833Nathaniel Silsbee (W-MA) 1833-1835John Davis (W-MA) 1835-1836William R. King (D-AL) 1836-1841Jabez Huntington (W-CT) 1841-1845William Haywood (D-NC) 1845-1846John Dix (D-NY) 1846-1849Hannibal Hamlin (D-ME) 1849-1856Henry Dodge (D-WI) 1856-1857Clement Clay (D-AL) 1857-1861Zachariah Chandler (R-MI) 1861-1875Roscoe Conkling (R-NY) 1875-1879John B. Gordon (D-GA) 1879-1880Matt Ransom (D-GA) 1880-1881Samuel J. R. McMillan (R-MN) 1881-1887William P. Frye (R-ME) 1887-1893Matt Ransom (D-NC) 1893-1895William P. Frye (R-ME) 1895-1911Knute Nelson (R-MN) 1911-1913James P. Clarke (D-AR) 1913-1916Duncan U. Fletcher (D-FL) 1916-1919Wesley L. Jones (R-WA) 1919-1930Hiram W. Johnson (R-CA) 1930-1933Hubert D. Stephens (D-MS) 1933-1935Royal S. Copeland (D-NY) 1935-1939Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) 1939-1947Chairmen of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1887-1947Shelby M. Cullom (R-IL) 1887-1893Matthew Butler (D-SC) 1893-1895Shelby M. Cullom (R-IL) 1895-1901Stephen Elkins (R-WV) 1901-1911Moses E. Clapp (R-MN) 1911-1913Francis G. Newlands (D-NV) 1913-1917Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) 1917-1919Albert B. Cummins (R-IA) 1919-1924Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) 1924-1925James E. Watson (R-IN) 1925-1928James Couzens (R-MI) 1928-1933Clarence C. Dill (D-WA) 1933-1935Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) 1935-1947Chairmen of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1947-1961Wallace H. White, Jr (R-ME) 1947-1949Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) 1949-1953Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) 1953John W. Bricker (R-OH) 1953-1955Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1955-1961Chairmen of the Committee on Commerce, 1961-1977Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1961-1977 Chairmen of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1977-presentWarren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1977-1978Howard W. Cannon (D-NV) 1978-1981Bob Packwood (R-OR) 1981-1985John Danforth (R-MO) 1985-1987Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 1987-1995Larry Pressler (R-SD) 1995-1997John McCain (R-AZ) 1997-2001Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 2001John McCain (R-AZ) 2001Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 2001-2003John McCain (R-AZ) 2003-2005Ted Stevens (R-AK) 2005-
External linksCommittee on Commerce, Science and Transportation website
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