Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship

All proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials and other matters relating to the Small Business Administration. It also studies and surveys the problems of small business enterprises.

Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship has 19 members, made up of 10 Republicans and 9 Democrats. Joni Ernst chairs it. Edward J. Markey is the ranking member, which is the senior post held by the minority party. Senate committee seats are held for the length of a senator term, so membership turns over more slowly than in the House. The membership below is generated from the roster this site maintains against clerk.house.gov and senate.gov.

Jurisdiction source: Senate Rule XXV

How business reaches this committee

Senate Rule XXV lists the subjects above and assigns them here. A bill introduced in the Senate is referred to the committee whose Rule XXV jurisdiction covers its main subject, so measures on these topics start with this committee. From there it can hold hearings, amend the text, report the bill to the full Senate, or leave it alone, which is what happens to most bills.

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.

Without subcommittees every member takes part in each hearing and each markup. That keeps one record instead of two, and a bill gets a single hearing rather than a subcommittee hearing followed by a full committee hearing.

Who serves on it

19 senators sit on the committee: 10 Republicans and 9 Democrats. That gives the majority 10 of the 19 seats. Joni Ernst is the chairman. Edward J. Markey is the ranking member. They come from 19 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

19 members. Generated from the roster this site holds, checked against the Clerk of the House and the Senate committee lists on September 26, 2026.

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