Senate Commerce Committee

Ashford, Nicholas A. and Heaton, George R., "Environmental and Safety Regulations Reasons for their Adoption and Possible Effects on Technological Innovation," Testimony to Senate Commerce Committee, June 23, 1975. 

Of interest over the next months, perhaps years, will be the proposed Product Liability Act prepared by the Senate Commerce Committee. The central thrust of the bill is to create a federal product liability law which would preempt state liability statutes but retain the jurisdiction of the state courts. 

Wold JS. Supercomputing network A key to U.S. competitiveness in indnstries based on life-sciences excellence. Testimony before the U.S. Senate, Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee. http //www.funet.fi/pnb/sci/molbio/historical/biodocs/wold.txt... 

The consent legislation for the Northwest Compact is S. 247 in the Senate. It has been referred to the Judiciary Committee and will be held at full Committee level. In the House, H.R. 1012 has been referred to the Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Congressman JohnDingell of Michigan, and to the Interior Committee, chaired by Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona. 

STEPHEN A. MERRILL works on science and technology issues for the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. A political scientist, he is a graduate of Columbia, Oxford, and Yale Universities. Formerly, he was a Congressional Fellow of the American Political Science Association, a Brookings Institution Research Fellow, and a staff member of the Senate Select Committee to Study the Committee System. 

In September 2002, the Texas State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) www.seco.cpa.state.tx.ns submitted to the House of Representatives Energy Resources and Senate Business and Commerce Committees a plan for accelerating the commerciaUzation of fuel cells in Texas www.seco.cpa.state. tx.us/fciacfinalreport.pdf. Included in this plan were 15 recommendations, as follows ... 

Testimony of Federal Trade Commission before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate (April 23, 2002) available at... 

U.S. Senate (2001), Testimony of Dr. Willie E. May, chief. Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, NIST, before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, United States Senate on E-Health and Technology Empowering Consumers in a Simpler, More Cost Effective Health Care System 23 July, 2001. 

Smalley, R., Nanotechnology, Congressional Hearings—Emerging Technologies in the New Millenium, The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, May 12, 1999. 

Mogee, Mary Ellen, "Industrial Innovation and Its Relation to the U.S. Domestic Economy and International Trade Competitiveness Analysis of Hearings Held by Subcommittees of the Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and the House Committee on Science and Technology," Congressional Research Service Washington, October 13, 1978. 

Commission on Research Integrity. 1995. Integrity and Misconduct in Research Report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. House Committee on Commerce and the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Washington, DC US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. 

The specific request for this study came from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and Business Rights endorsed the study. 

M. Trumper, Water Pollution, in Senate Committee on Commerce, Stream Pollution, Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, U nited States Senate (Government Printing Office, Washington, 1936), pp. 403-404. 

A definition of unreasonable risk was deliberately omitted from H.R. 15003, the bill passed by the House, and this omission was carried forward into the final version of the Act by the Conference Committee. The House s reasons for omitting a definition of unreasonable risk, however, do not reflect a rejection of the Senate s cost-benefit approach. As the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce explained ... 

If... one were to venture a reply to the question of what a less hazardous cigarette would be like, I cannot for the moment find a better one than that given by Rylander and myself [to the 1968 Consumer Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce] ... 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (2006). Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004, Public Law 108-282, Report to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate and the Committee on Energy Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, July. 

American Association of Railroads (1999a), Statement of Edward R. Hamberger, President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Railroads, Before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine on Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization, httD //www.fusionDroductions.com/aar/testimonv.htm. Washington, D.C. (accessed 5/27/99). 

The analyses presented are based on the author s role as a consultant to the Columbia board including participating in the board s Safety Symposium on Organizational Factors, Houston, April 27-8, 2003, and on the author s discussions with US Senate and House science committees regarding the effectiveness of NASA s planned safety reforms, including invited testimony, hearing on The Future of NASA, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, John McCain, Chair, Washington, DC, October 29, 2003. 

Statement of Commissioner Thomas H. Moore submitted to the Subcommittee oh Consumer Affairs, insurance, and Automotive Safety, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 7 (2007), ava/7aWe af www.cpsc.gov/pr/moore2007.pdf. 

It is interesting to note that H. F. Larson suggested in 1967( ) to the Committee on Commerce of the US Senate a binary system similar to the Elizabethan one. 

Statement of Joseph M. Clapp, Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Before Senate Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Oct. 10, 2001. 

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