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Energy And Commerce Committee
The Energy and Commerce Committee, established by the House of Representatives in 1795, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, established as we know it today in 1977, host a multitude of functions. The Energy and Commerce Committee is one of America’s oldest and most powerful congressional committees. This committee oversees general national energy policies, public health, general interstate and foreign commerce, consumer affairs and consumer protection, and regulation of energy resources and development, just to name a few ("Committee History.” 1). Originally. the committee began as the Committee on Commerce and Manufacture, born out of the need for America to establish a permanent panel able to regulate Commerce …show more content…
The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation actually began in the Committee on Commerce and Manufacture. In 1825, Senator Mahlon Dickerson, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures, proposed splitting the committee into two separate committees, one to support commerce, and the other to support manufacture. This proposal was due to a persistent rift among the members of the committee. Thus, the proposal was approved 20 to 9 and the committee was split and the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures become two separate committees; The Committee on Commerce, which eventually became the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House, and the Committee on Manufactures. The Committee on Manufactures remained fairly constant over the next 100 years until the 1940’s when the Senate began to reorganize its committees for a second time. The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 was designed to improve efficiency and remove unnecessary committees in the Senate. The Committee on Manufacture, the Committee on Interstate Commerce and the Committee on Interoceanic Canals were removed and a new committee, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, replaced them. Then in 1961, the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce was renamed to the Committee on Commerce. Finally, in 1976, the Committee on Commerce was renamed to the Committee on
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