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United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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U.S. House Committees Agriculture • Appropriations • Armed Services • Budget • Education and the Workforce • Energy and Commerce • Ethics • Financial Services • Foreign Affairs • Homeland Security • House Administration • Intelligence (Permanent Select) • Judiciary • Natural Resources • Oversight and Government Reform • Rules • Science, Space, and Technology • Small Business • Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party • Transportation and Infrastructure • Veterans' Affairs • Ways and Means

Background United States Congress • United States Senate • United States House of Representatives • United States Constitution • 113th United States Congress • 112th United States Congress

The United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship is a standing committee of the U.S. Senate. It was created in an earlier and more temporary form on October 8, 1940. Its inaugural session was chaired by James E. Murray.^[1]

Leadership

118th Congress

The committee chairman in the 118th Congress was Ben Cardin (D).

117th Congress

The committee chairman in the 117th Congress was Ben Cardin (D).

116th Congress

The committee chairman in the 116th Congress was Marco Rubio (R).

115th Congress

The committee chairman in the 115th Congress was James Risch (R).

114th Congress

The committee chairman in the 114th Congress was David Vitter (R).

113th Congress

The committee chairwoman in the 113th Congress was initially Mary L. Landrieu (D). Landrieu was subsequently replaced by Maria Cantwell (D) on February 19, 2014.^[2]

112th Congress

The committee chairman in the 112th Congress was Mary L. Landrieu (D).

Membership

Roger Marshall (R) left this committee in 2024. ^[Source]

Rick Scott (R) left this committee in 2024. ^[Source]

Mike Enzi (R) left this committee in 2018.

Cory Gardner (R) left this committee in 2016.

Mike Enzi (R) left this committee in 2016.

Mike Enzi (R) left this committee in 2014.

Mike Enzi (R) left this committee in 2012.

Jurisdiction

According to the official Senate website, the jurisdiction of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee includes the following:

“	The committee is referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the Small Business Administration (SBA). Study and survey by means of research and investigation all problems of American small business enterprises, and report thereon from time to time. ^[3]	”
—U.S. Senate Committee on Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship^[4]

Contact

428A Russell Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510

Phone: 202-224-5175
Fax: 202-224-5619

External links

Footnotes

↑ U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship, "About"
↑ Small Business Trends, "Cantwell Replacing Landrieu as Chair of Senate Small Business Committee," February 17, 2014
↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ U.S. Senate Committee on Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

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Joint Congressional committees	Deficit Reduction (Select) • Printing • Taxation • Library • Economic

U.S. Senate Committees	Aging • Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry • Appropriations • Armed Services • Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs • Budget • Commerce, Science and Transportation • Energy and Natural Resources • Environment and Public Works • Ethics (Select) • Finance • Foreign Relations • Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions • Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs • Indian Affairs • Intelligence (Select) • Rules and Administration • Small Business and Entrepreneurship • Veterans' Affairs • Judiciary

U.S. House Committees	Agriculture • Appropriations • Armed Services • Budget • Education and the Workforce • Energy and Commerce • Ethics • Financial Services • Foreign Affairs • Homeland Security • House Administration • Intelligence (Permanent Select) • Judiciary • Natural Resources • United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform • Rules • Science, Space, and Technology • Small Business • United States House of Representatives Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party • Transportation and Infrastructure • Veterans' Affairs • Ways and Means