United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
[edit] Current Membership
In the 109th Congress
[edit] Republicans
[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
- 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
[edit] 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)
[edit] Chairmen
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Committee on Commerce, 1961-1977
- Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1961-1977
[edit] 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-
