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 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.
Members, 111th Congress
The Committee is chaired by Democrat Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and the Ranking Minority Member is Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.
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Source: 2009 Congressional Record, Vol. 155, Page S729 , S9690
Subcommittees
| Subcommittee | Chair | Ranking Minority Member |
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| Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security | Byron Dorgan (D-ND) | Jim DeMint (R-SC) |
| Communications, Technology, and the Internet | John Kerry (D-MA) | John Ensign (R-NV) |
| Competitiveness, Innovation, and Export Promotion | Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) | George LeMieux (R-FL) |
| Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance | Mark Pryor (D-AR) | Roger Wicker (R-MS) |
| Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard | Maria Cantwell (D-WA) | Olympia Snowe (R-ME) |
| Science and Space | Bill Nelson (D-FL) | David Vitter (R-LA) |
| Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security | Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) | John Thune (R-SD) |
History
The original progenitors of this committee were:
- United States Senate Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (1816-1825)
- United States Senate Committee on Commerce (1825-1946, 1961-1977)
- United States Senate Committee on Manufactures (1825-1855, 1864-1946)
- United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce (1885-1946)
- United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals (1899-1946)
- United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1946-1961)
- United States Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (1958-1977)
Chairmen
Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, 1816-1825
- William Hunter (F-RI) 1816-1817
- Nathan Sanford (R-NY) 1817-1820
- Mahlon Dickerson (R-NJ) 1820-1825
Committee on Commerce, 1825-1927
- James Lloyd (NR-MA) 1825-1826
- Josiah Johnston (NR-LA) 1826-1827
- Levi Woodbury (D-NH) 1827-1831
- John Forsyth (D-GA) 1831-1832
- William R. King (D-AL) 1832-1833
- Nathaniel Silsbee (W-MA) 1833-1835
- John Davis (W-MA) 1835-1836
- William R. King (D-AL) 1836-1841
- Jabez Huntington (W-CT) 1841-1845
- William Haywood (D-NC) 1845-1846
- John Dix (D-NY) 1846-1849
- Hannibal Hamlin (D-ME) 1849-1856
- Henry Dodge (D-WI) 1856-1857
- Clement Claiborne Clay (D-AL) 1857-1861
- Zachariah Chandler (R-MI) 1861-1875
- Roscoe Conkling (R-NY) 1875-1879
- John B. Gordon (D-GA) 1879-1880
- Matt Ransom (D-GA) 1880-1881
- Samuel J. R. McMillan (R-MN) 1881-1887
- William P. Frye (R-ME) 1887-1893
- Matt Ransom (D-NC) 1893-1895
- William P. Frye (R-ME) 1895-1911
- Knute Nelson (R-MN) 1911-1913
- James P. Clarke (D-AR) 1913-1916
- Duncan U. Fletcher (D-FL) 1916-1919
- Wesley L. Jones (R-WA) 1919-1930
- Hiram W. Johnson (R-CA) 1930-1933
- Hubert D. Stephens (D-MS) 1933-1935
- Royal S. Copeland (D-NY) 1935-1939
- Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC) 1939-1947
Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1887-1947
- Shelby M. Cullom (R-IL) 1887-1893
- Matthew Butler (D-SC) 1893-1895
- Shelby M. Cullom (R-IL) 1895-1901
- Stephen Elkins (R-WV) 1901-1911
- Moses E. Clapp (R-MN) 1911-1913
- Francis G. Newlands (D-NV) 1913-1917
- Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) 1917-1919
- Albert B. Cummins (R-IA) 1919-1924
- Ellison D. Smith (D-SC) 1924-1925
- James E. Watson (R-IN) 1925-1928
- James Couzens (R-MI) 1928-1933
- Clarence C. Dill (D-WA) 1933-1935
- Burton K. Wheeler (D-MT) 1935-1947
Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1947-1961
- Wallace H. White, Jr. (R-ME) 1947-1949
- Edwin C. Johnson (D-CO) 1949-1953
- Charles W. Tobey (R-NH) 1953
- John W. Bricker (R-OH) 1953-1955
- Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1955-1961
Committee on Commerce, 1961-1977
- Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1961-1977
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1977-present
- Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1977-1978
- Howard W. Cannon (D-NV) 1978-1981
- Bob Packwood (R-OR) 1981-1985
- John Danforth (R-MO) 1985-1987
- Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 1987-1995
- Larry Pressler (R-SD) 1995-1997
- John McCain (R-AZ) 1997-2001
- Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 2001
- John McCain (R-AZ) 2001
- Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) 2001-2003
- John McCain (R-AZ) 2003-2005
- Ted Stevens (R-AK) 2005-2007
- Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) 2007-2009
- Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) 2009-
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