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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 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.

Contents 1 Membership, 110th Congress 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

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii. The ranking member 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

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)

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)

• William Hunter (F-RI) 1816-1817
• Nathan Sanford (R-NY) 1817-1820
• Mahlon Dickerson (R-NJ) 1820-1825

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA) 1961-1977

• 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-

• Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation website

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