| Session length | 12 months |
|---|---|
| Current session | 03 Jan 2022 - 03 Jan 2023 |
The Committee on Ways and Means has exercised jurisdiction over revenue and related issues such as tariffs, reciprocal trade agreements, and the bonded debt of the United States. Revenue-related aspects of the Social Security system, Medicare, and social services programs.
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has jurisdiction over a variety of issues including civil aviation, railroads, water transportation, transportation safety, transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, road maintenance, damns, bridges, and railroad retirement. As well as, Commercial space transportation, Coast Guard, lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy, federal management of emergencies and natural disasters, flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors, inland waterways, an inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels, navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage, registering and licensing of vessels and small boats, rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at sea, the Capitol Building, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and Government buildings within the District of Columbia. Along with Marine affairs such as oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including inland, coastal, and ocean waters, coastal zone management.
The Energy and Commerce Committee has jurisdiction to legislate over a variety of issues, including but not limited to environmental protection, climate change, national energy policy, renewable energy and conservation, and nuclear facilities.
The Science Space and Technology Committee has exclusive jurisdiction over the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The Committee also has authority over the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service (NWS), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources have jurisdiction to legislate over a variety of issues including but not limited to nuclear energy, Indian affairs, public lands and their renewable resources, surface mining, Federal coal, oil, gas, and other mineral leasing, territories and insular possessions, and water resources.
The Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee has jurisdiction to oversee issues ranging from communications, highways, aviation, rail, shipping, transportation security, merchant marine, the Coast Guard, oceans, fisheries, weather, disasters, science, space, interstate commerce, tourism, consumer issues, economic development, technology, competitiveness, product safety, and insurance.
Committee on Environment and Public Works has jurisdiction to legislate over a variety of issues, including but not limited to, air pollution, noise pollution, construction, and maintenance of highways environmental aspects of Outer Continental Shelf lands, environmental policy, environmental research, and development fisheries and wildlife, environmental protection, conservation, and resource utilization.
The Finance Committee has jurisdiction to legislate over a variety of issues, including but not limited to matters relating to taxation and other revenue measures, customs, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery, trade agreements; tariff and import quotas, and deposit of public money, health programs under the Social Security Act, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and other health and human services programs financed by a specific tax or trust fund; and national social security.