House Commerce Chairman Pallone Announces Subcomittees

House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the Committee’s six subcommittees for the 116th Congress. The jurisdictions of the subcommittees are unchanged from the previous Congress, but two of the subcommittees have new names – the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce (previously the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection), and the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change (previously the Subcommittee on Environment).“I’m confident these six subcommittees will allow us to focus on our priorities of strengthening the economy, reducing costs for consumers, combating climate change and conducting vigorous oversight,” Chairman Pallone said. The six subcommittees are:

1. Subcommittee on Communications and Technology -- Jurisdiction: Electronic communications, both Interstate and foreign, including voice, video, audio and data, whether transmitted by wire or wirelessly, and whether transmitted by telecommunications, commercial or private mobile service, broadcast, cable, satellite, microwave, or other mode; technology generally; emergency and public safety communications; cybersecurity, privacy, and data security; the Federal Communications Commission, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Emergency Communications Division in the Department of Homeland Security; and all aspects of the above-referenced jurisdiction related to the Department of Homeland Security.
2. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce
3. Subcommittee on Energy
4. Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change
5. Subcommittee on Health
6. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations