During his time in the Senate, he has been chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, and is the senior Republican on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
He also stated his intention to launch a Pilot Institute using existing resources from the Departments of Defense, Energy, and Commerce, and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on pay equity, while the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed merger between NBC and Comcast.
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Its invention reduced the amount of time necessary to perform complex mathematical operations, making it an invaluable tool for commerce, science and engineering.
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Ranking Member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, to thank for pushing this disapproval resolution forward in the Senate.
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The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a product liability bill (S648) in May 1997, similar to the legislation vetoed by Clinton in 1996.
Prague flourished as a centre of art, commerce, science and thought.
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About a year ago, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation identified several major billing consolidators who are responsible for the majority of these unauthorized charges.
Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
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Republicans are asking the same questions of transportation secretary-designate Rodney Slater, but the panel that must confirm him, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is giving him a much easier time.
His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress.
Tuesday the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will haul in, among others, the chairman of the agency that oversees railroad mergers, the head of the Norfolk Southern railroad and a top official from the Government Accountability to discuss the state of competition in the freight rail industry.
Over the last three years, the United States and Russia have been able to make significant progress on a wide range of issues, including the New START Treaty, the 1, 2, 3 Agreement, the work we've done on Russia's accession to the WTO, and setting up a presidential process whereby issues of trade and commerce, science, technology are all discussed at a much more intensive level.
John McCain, R-Arizona, chairs the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which handles most of these Internet privacy bills, may give McCain's own proposals an edge.
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But science is one thing and commerce another.
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Still, the hive of science-based commerce around Cambridge is precisely the sort of thing that Peter Mandelson, the trade and industry secretary, wants to encourage.
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