Artifacts
Resolution for the appointment of
Standing Committees, December 5, 1816
Document Courtesy: Simple resolutions and
motions (SEN14A-B6); 14th Congress; Records
of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46; National Archives Building, Washington,
DC.
Senate Committee on Commerce, 1901, considering
the Ship Subsidy Bill. “Congress was urged to take ‘immediate action
on measures to promote American shipping and foreign trade'."
Photo Courtesy: Senate Historical Office
Senate Commerce Committee Subcommittee hearing
on the Titanic disaster held pursuant to S. Res. 283, which directed
the Committee to investigate the causes leading to the wreck, April 19,
1912.
Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress
Interstate Commerce Committee, 1916
Photo Courtesy: Library of Congress
Senate Commerce Committee hearing on S. 6, a bill
to provide for
the regulation of the transmission of intelligence
by wire or wireless, December 9, 1929. Pictured left to right:
Senator Clarence C. Dill (D-WA); Owen Young, RCA Chairman; and
Senator James Couzens, (R-MI), Chairman.
Photo Courtesy: Senate Historical
Office
U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy testified
before the Senate Committee on Commerce on S. 1732, a bill to eliminate
discrimination in public accommodations affecting interstate commerce.
The hearings were held in the Senate Caucus Room,
July 1963.
Photo Courtesy: Library
of Congress
Norris Cotton (R-NH), Ranking Minority Member
of the Senate Commerce Committee, shaking the hand of U.S. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy after the 1963 hearing on S. 1732. Left:
Commerce Committee Member Thruston B. Morton (R-KY).
Photo Courtesy:
Senate Historical Office
Executive Session of the Senate Committee on Commerce,
1974. Senators at table, left to right: Russell B. Long (D-LA); Howard
W. Cannon (D-NV); Vance Hartke (D-IN); Norris Cotton (R-NH), Ranking Minority
Member; James B. Pearson (R-KS); Robert P. Griffin, (R-MI);
Howard H. Baker, Jr. (R-TN); and Ted Stevens (R-AK).
Photo Courtesy: Senate Historical Office
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