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  • 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

  • Transport ation

  • 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 .


CURRENT MEMBERSHIP

In the 109th Congress


Republicans



Democrats



SUBCOMMITTEES



HISTORY

The original progenitors of this committee were:


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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