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

1 Current Membership

1.1 Republicans
1.2 Democrats

2 Subcommittees
3 History
4 Chairmen

4.1 Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, 1816-1825
4.2 Committee on Commerce, 1825-1927
4.3 Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1887-1947
4.4 Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1947-1961
4.5 Committee on Commerce, 1961-1977
4.6 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1977-present

5 External links

Current Membership

In the 109th Congress

Republicans

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	Senator	State \|- \|bgcolor=\|	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

Democrats

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	Senator	State \|- \|bgcolor=\|	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

Subcommittees

United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation
*Chairman - Trent Lott, R-Mississippi
*Ranking Member - Jay Rockefeller, D-West Virginia
United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications
*Chairman - Conrad Burns, R-Montana
*Ranking Member - Fritz Hollings, D-South Carolina
United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure
*Chairman - Gordon Smith, R-Oregon
*Ranking Member - Byron Dorgan, D-North Dakota
United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Product Safety
*Chairman - Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois
*Ranking Member - Ron Wyden, D-Oregon
United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
*Chairman - Olympia Snowe, R-Maine
*Ranking Member - John Kerry, D-Massachusetts
United States Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
*Chairman - Sam Brownback, R-Kansas
*Ranking Member - John Breaux, D-Louisiana
United States 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:

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (1816-1825)
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce (1825-1946, 1961-1977)
U.S. Senate Committee on Manufactures (1825-1855, 1864-1946)
U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce (1885-1946)
U.S. Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals (1899-1946)
U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (1946-1961)
U.S. 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 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-

External links

[Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation website]

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