Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is all but officially the new head of the Senate Commerce Committee. The move was expected, as fellow Republican John McCain had to rotate off the committee in accordance with chairmanship term limits set by his party. The Senate Republican Conference elected Stevens, a member of the Com

Republican Senate rules call for any senator under felony indictment to resign leadership positions in committees.

Sen. Daniel Inouye of Hawaii sees a key role for himself as Congress begins re-writing the Telecom Act soon. Inouye, ranking Democrat of the Senate Commerce Committee with the retirement of Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, tells the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that he and Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska will chair hearin

New Senate Commerce subcommittee memberships were designated this week.

The Senate Commerce Committee, reacting to a public backlash over the FCC’s loosening of media ownership rules, voted last week to overturn the agency’s

The votes came several days after hearings in which the Senate panel expressed concerns over how the FCC was run during the Bush era.

The Senate Commerce Committee approved April 7, 2009 as the day analog spectrum must be returned to the government

Ted Stevens, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee told his colleagues to turn in their telecom draft bills before leaving on recess. "Following the Fourth of July recess we intend to find a day to have a hearing, a substantial hearing," he said Thursday. Stevens said it would "take quite a long time... to explo