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 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.

1 Membership, 110th Congress
2 Subcommittees
3 History
4 Chairmen
5 External links

Membership, 110th Congress

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and the Vice Chairwoman is Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas.

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
	Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Vice Chairwoman	Texas [1]
	John McCain	Arizona
	Ted Stevens	Alaska
	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
	Roger Wicker	Mississippi

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)	Kay Bailey Hutchinson, (R-TX)
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)	David Vitter, (R-LA)
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security	Frank Lautenberg, (D-NJ)	Gordon Smith, (R-OR)