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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.
==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, ''Ranking Member'' 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

Contents

Subcommittees

History

Chairmen

Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, 1816-1825

Committee on Commerce, 1825-1927

Committee on Interstate Commerce, 1887-1947

Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, 1947-1961

Committee on Commerce, 1961-1977

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 1977-present

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Subcommittees

Subcommittees of the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Minority Member
Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security	Jay Rockefeller, (D-WV)	Trent Lott, (R-MS)
Consumer Affairs, Insurance, and Automotive Safety	Mark Pryor, (D-AR)	John E. Sununu, (R-NH)
Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism	Byron Dorgan, (D-ND)	Gordon Smith, (R-OR)
Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard	Maria Cantwell, (D-WA)	Olympia Snowe, (R-ME)
Science, Technology, and Innovation	John Kerry, (D-MA)	John Ensign, (R-NV)
Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences	Bill Nelson, (D-FL)	Kay Bailey Hutchison, (R-TX)
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security	Frank Lautenberg, (D-NJ)	Gordon Smith, (R-OR)

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-

External links

★ Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation website