The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband is a subcommittee within the
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. It was renamed from the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet at the start of the
117th Congress. Prior to the
111th Congress, it was known as the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Innovation.
Jurisdiction
The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet has jurisdiction over legislation, Congressional action, and other matters relating to communications. For these purposes, "communications" includes telephones, cell phones, the Internet, commercial and noncommercial television, cable, satellite broadcast, satellite communications, wireline and wireless broadband, radio, consumer electronic equipment associated with such services, and public safety communications.