{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=d124b855-5471-4106-8281-9590cb5aa025", "Thune Welcomes Commerce Committee Members for the 114th Congress", "2014-12-15", "2014", "2014-12", "Republican", "House", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014U.S. Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota), ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today welcomed new and returning Republican members to the committee:\r\n\u201cIn the 114th Congress, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will work to advance solutions that help create jobs, grow the economy, and improve Americans\u2019 daily lives, and I\u2019m fortunate to be joined in this endeavor by a strong group of Republican members. From transportation and Internet policy to consumer protection and more, we have much work ahead of us, but I know Republicans on the Commerce Committee are ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work.\u201d\r\nThe Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has wide jurisdiction over matters relating to the U.S. Department of Transportation with respect to highway safety, commercial motor carriers, railroads, buses, vessels, pipelines, inland waterways, and civil and commercial aviation; the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding weather and atmospheric activities at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, marine fisheries and navigation, science and technology research and development; telecommunications policy and the Internet; U.S. Coast Guard and Merchant Marine; National Aeronautics and Space Administration regarding nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences; regulation of consumer products via the Consumer Product Safety Commission; the Federal Trade Commission; and sports.\r\nWith Republican and Democrat senators now named to the Commerce Committee, the subcommittee selection process will begin, enabling the committee to be formalized as early as the first full week of January, after the 114th Congress convenes.\r\nBelow is the full list of Republican members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee:\r\n\u00a0\r\nJohn Thune, South Dakota\r\nRoger Wicker, Mississippi\r\nRoy Blunt, Missouri\r\nMarco Rubio, Florida\r\nKelly Ayotte, New Hampshire\r\nDean Heller, Nevada\r\nTed Cruz, Texas\r\nDeb Fischer, Nebraska\r\nDan Sullivan, Alaska\r\nJerry Moran, Kansas\r\nRon Johnson, Wisconsin\r\nCory Gardner, Colorado\r\nSteve Daines, Montana\r\nLast week, the following Democrat senators were named to the Commerce Committee:\r\nBill Nelson, Florida\r\nMaria Cantwell, Washington\r\nClaire McCaskill, Missouri\r\nAmy Klobuchar, Minnesota\r\nRichard Blumenthal, Connecticut\r\nBrian Schatz, Hawaii\r\nEd Markey, Massachusetts\r\nCory Booker, New Jersey\r\nTom Udall, New Mexico\r\nJoe Manchin, West Virginia\r\nGary Peters, Michigan\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=d124b855-5471-4106-8281-9590cb5aa025"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6538380403071642, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}