United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation

The United States 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
 * "Green" Technologies and Practices
 * 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.

Members, 113th Congress
The committee is chaired by Democrat Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and the Ranking Member is Republican John Thune of South Dakota.

Source:, 661–662

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)

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