Senator Lautenberg's Committees
Senator Lautenberg serves on three Senate committees: Appropriations; Commerce, Science and Transportation; and Environment and Public Works.
Appropriations
The Senate Appropriations Committee is the largest committee in the U.S. Senate. Its role is defined by the U.S. Constitution, which requires "appropriations made by law" prior to the expenditure of any money from the Federal treasury. The Committee writes the legislation that allocates federal funds to the numerous government agencies, departments, and organizations on an annual basis. The Committee is also responsible for supplemental spending bills, which are sometimes needed in the middle of a fiscal year to compensate for emergency expenses.
Senator Lautenberg serves on six Appropriations subcommittees:
- Financial Services and General Government, Chair
- Homeland Security
- Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies
- Energy and Water Development
- State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs
- Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
For more information, please visit the Committee's website.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
The Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has jurisdiction over a number of government agencies and functions important to New Jersey, including the Coast Guard, highway safety, interstate commerce, and marine navigation, including deepwater ports such as the New York - New Jersey Port. In addition, the Committee regulates all interstate common carriers, including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, civil aviation and telecommunications.
Senator Lautenberg serves on four Commerce subcommittees:
- Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security, Chair
- Aviation Operations, Safety and Security
- Communications, Technology and the Internet
- Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard
For more information, please visit the Committee's website.
Environment and Public Works
The Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee is responsible for protecting the nation's natural environment, including its air, water and wildlife. The Committee also regulates nonmilitary nuclear power and oversees the nation's surface transportation infrastructure.
Senator Lautenberg serves on three EPW subcommittees:
- Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health
- Transportation and Infrastructure
- Water and Wildlife
- Oversight
For more information, please visit the Committee's website.
Chairmanships
Senator Lautenberg serves as chairman of two Senate subcommittees, one on the Appropriations Committee and another on the Commerce Committee.
Financial Services and General Government
As part of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Lautenberg serves as Chairman of a subcommittee that is responsible for allocating federal funding for a diverse swath of federal agencies and programs, including the Securities & Exchange Commission, the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Trade Commission, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the Executive Office of the President, Federal court system and many other Federal agencies and regulatory commissions.
A complete list of the subcommittee jurisdiction follows:
- Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (Judiciary)
- Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (Treasury)
- Allowances and Office Staff for Former Presidents (GSA)
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing (Treasury)
- Bureau of the Public Debt (Treasury)
- Care of Supreme Court Building and Grounds (Architect of the Capitol)
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Community Development Financial Institutions Inspector General
- Compensation of the President (Executive Office of the President)
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Council of Economic Advisers (Executive Office of the President)
- Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center (ONDCP)
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Judiciary)
- Court of International Trade (Judiciary)
- Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia
- Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and Other Judicial Services (Judiciary)
- Disaster Loans Program (Small Business Administration)
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Courts
- Election Assistance Commission
- Executive Office of the President
- Executive Residence at the White House (Executive Office of the President)
- Federal Acquisition Service (GSA)
- Federal Buildings Fund (GSA)
- Federal Citizen Information Center (GSA)
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Inspector General
- Federal Election Commission
- Federal Judicial Center (Judiciary)
- Federal Labor Relations Authority
- Federal Trade Commission
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Treasury)
- Financial Management Service (Treasury)
- Funds Appropriated to the President (Executive Office of the President)
- General Services Administration (GSA)
- High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (ONDCP)
- Information Security Oversight Office (NARA)
- Internal Revenue Service (Treasury)
- Judiciary
- Merit Systems Protection Board
- Morris K. Udall Scholarship/National Environmental Policy Foundation
- National Archives and Records Administration
- National Credit Union Administration:
- Central Liquidity Facility
- Community Development Revolving Loan Fund
- National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NARA)
- National Security Council (Executive Office of the President)
- Office of Administration (Executive Office of the President)
- Office of Government Ethics
- Office of Management and Budget (Executive Office of the President)
- Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
- Office of Personnel Management
- Office of Policy Development (Executive Office of the President)
- Office of Special Counsel
- Official Residence of the Vice President (Executive Office of the President)
- Postal Regulatory Commission
- President's Commission on White House Fellows (OPM)
- Property Management and Disposal Activities (GSA)
- Public Buildings Service (GSA)
- Resident Tuition Support (DC)
- Retirement and Disability Fund (OPM)
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Selective Service System
- Small Business Administration
- Special Assistance to the President (Executive Office of the President)
- Supreme Court (Judiciary)
- Treasury, Department of the
- Unanticipated Needs (Executive Office of the President)
- United States Postal Service, Payment to the Postal Service Fund
- United States Tax Court
- U.S. Courts of Appeals (Judiciary)
- U.S. Mint (Treasury)
- U.S. Sentencing Commission (Judiciary)
- Vice Presidential Residence (DOD-Navy)
- White House Office, the (Executive Office of the President)
- White House Residence (U.S. Park Service)
For more information, please visit the Committee's website.
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security
As part of the Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, Senator Lautenberg ’s subcommittee has jurisdiction over:
- Railroads (freight and intercity passenger)
- Pipelines
- Motor carriers (interstate trucking)
- Domestic and international ocean shipping
- Commercial passenger vessels
- Port infrastructure and operations
- Hazardous materials transportation
- Surface and maritime transportation research
- Surface and maritime transportation security
- Household goods and shipping consumer protection
- DOT surface and maritime transportation nominations
For more information, please visit the Committee's Web site.
