The Senate Commerce Committee finally released yesterday the assignments of its members to its various subcommittees, including the Subcommittee on Science and Space. The leadership of the subcommittee—chairwoman Kay Bailey Hutchison and ranking member Bill Nelson—had already been announced, but the rest of the members are just now known:
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Trent Lott (R-MS)
John Ensign (R-NV)
George Allen (R-VA)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Sen. Stevens is the chairman of the full committee, and thus has the power to sit on all the subcommittees. It’s interesting that Sen. Inouye (D-HI), the co-chairman and ranking Democrat on the full committee, did not exercise a similar role for this subcommittee, although he is a member of most of the other subcommittees.
