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Senate Creates Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittee
The U.S. Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has established a new subcommittee to focus on manufacturing and competitiveness issues. Spencer Abraham (R-MI) will chair the Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittee.
Joining Abraham on the subcommittee are: Olympia Snowe (R-ME), John Ashcroft (R-MO), Bill Frist (R-TN), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Richard Bryan (D-NV), Ernest Hollings (D-SC), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
The membership of the subcommittee has a large degree of overlap with the Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee, which is chaired by Frist. Five of the nine members of the Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee are on the Manufacturing and Competitiveness Subcommittee (Frist, Abraham, Rockefeller, Bryan, and Dorgan). The remaining four members are: Conrad Burns (R-MT), Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), Ted Stevens (R-AK), and John Kerry (D-MA).