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- Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today filed its report on S. 2997, the Maritime Administration Act for Fiscal Year 2009. In accordance with Senate Rule XLIV, the Committee provides the attached financial disclosure certification. ###

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- WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today signed on as a cosponsor to legislation that would assist consumers with pre-paid calling cards and ensure that fees and terms are easier to understand. The bill, S. 2998, would require pre-paid calling card providers and distributors to disclose the numbe...

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- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces that the Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism Subcommittee hearing on The Imbalance in U.S.-Korea Automobile Trade, has been rescheduled for September 24, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. The hearing will examine the reasons for the imbalance in U.S.-Korea bilateral automobile trade; its impact on the United...

- WASHINGTON D.C. –President George W. Bush today signed into law H.R. 4040, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The legislation reauthorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission for the first time in 18 years. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) issued the following statement. “The Consumer Product Safet...

- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), the Ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today released a letter urging Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters to focus on improving aviation congestion on behalf of the traveling public instead of moving forward with a proposal to allow the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA...

- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The President has signed into law S. 2607, a bill to make technical corrections to the Deficit Reduction Act. Introduced by Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), S. 2607 included a full substitute amendment authored by Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) that expands funding for digital television (DTV) transition assistance. The amendment also provides for ...

- WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation announces the previously postponed Full Committee Hearing on Improving Consumer Protection in the Prepaid Calling Card Market has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 10, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. The Committee will examine information disclosure to consumers, allegations of hidden charges and fees, discrepanci...

- WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), a member of the House-Senate conference committee, today voted in favor of the conference report to H.R. 4040, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, which passed the Senate 89-3. On Wednesday the bill passed the House by a vote of 424-1 and appears likely to be signed into law by the President. “Congress has now passe...