A joint commission of 21 members: 9 Representatives, 9 Senators, and 3 appointees from the Departments of State, Defense and Commerce. It monitors compliance with the Helsinki Final Act, with particular regard to the human rights provisions, and reports to both chambers. It is also known as the Helsinki Commission.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe has 9 members, made up of 5 Republicans and 4 Democrats. Roger F. Wicker chairs it. The membership below is generated from the roster this site maintains against clerk.house.gov and senate.gov.
Jurisdiction source: 22 U.S.C. Chapter 45
How business reaches this committee
This body is created by statute rather than by the rules of either chamber, so it is a commission and not a committee. Its membership combines members of Congress with executive branch appointees. It monitors and reports rather than legislating, and bills are not referred to it.
Subcommittees
The committee has no subcommittees. Every hearing, markup and vote happens in full committee, which keeps the whole membership on the same set of questions.
Its members meet as one body, take testimony, request information from federal agencies and publish what they find. There is no intermediate layer between a hearing and the published record.
Who serves on it
9 senators sit on the committee: 5 Republicans and 4 Democrats. That gives the majority 5 of the 9 seats. Roger F. Wicker is the cochairman. They come from 9 states.
Following its work
Hearing notices, markup schedules, witness lists and published reports live on the committee’s own site, linked at the top of this page. The full member list below links to each member’s page here, with contact details and the seat they hold. For background on how seats and chairs are handed out, read How congressional committees work. For what happens to a bill after a committee reports it, read How a bill becomes law. To look up who represents a particular place, start at U.S. senators by state.
Members
- Jeanne ShaheenDNew Hampshire
- John BoozmanRArkansas
- John FettermanDPennsylvania
- Katie Boyd BrittRAlabama
- Mike RoundsRSouth Dakota
- Roger F. WickerRMississippiCochairman
- Ruben GallegoDArizona
- Sheldon WhitehouseDRhode Island
- Thom TillisRNorth Carolina
9 members. Generated from the roster this site holds, checked against the Clerk of the House and the Senate committee lists on September 26, 2026.