Last night, the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee announced the panel’s subcommittee jurisdictions and memberships for the new 119th Congress.

During the prior Congress, the panel had seven subcommittees, but that drops down to six this year, with some accompanying consolidation of jurisdictions. Since this is Eno Transportation Weekly, we note that the Aviation subpanel has now taken jurisdiction over the space program, for an Aviation, Space, and Innovation Subcommittee chaired by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (R-IL) as ranking minority member. Those same two members, in reverse order, chaired and were ranking on the Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation Subcommittee in the last Congress.

(Moving transportation and goods through the air, on the way to space, is still aviation, and the Federal Aviation Administration has jurisdiction over commercial space travel until it leaves the atmosphere. The first “A” in NASA is still Aeronautics. And the space program used to be in the same budget function as transportation until, in FY 1963, they started spending so much money on it that it needed its own budget function.)

Given that Elon Musk’s SpaceX has had repeated clashes with the FAA over the years, the politics of putting space and aviation in one subcommittee are interesting.

Meanwhile, the Maritime Administration is moving from the surface to ocean. Last year, it was under the Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports Subcommittee, but this year it has rejoined the Coast Guard in a renamed Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries Subcommittee under chairman Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and ranking member Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE). This is a win for subject jurisdiction, since the Guard and MARAD have a lot of overlap there, but a loss for operative jurisdiction, since the Guard is DHS and Maritime is DOT.

The surface panel, meanwhile, has been renamed Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety and will be chaired by Todd Young (R-IN) with Gary Peters (D-MI) serving as ranking minority member.

The subcommittee that got abolished was Tourism, Trade, and Export Promotion. The abolition is probably because, when Democrats had the majority, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Las Vegas, Tourism Capital of Planet Earth) was in line to chair a subcommittee and really wanted a tourism subcommittee, and she doesn’t have as much of a say now that Democrats are not in the majority.

The lists of the full memberships can be found here. A matrix of the subcommittees is below.