Which committees oversee which industries

The map

Armed Services

Aerospace and defense contractors.

Energy & Commerce

Oil, gas, utilities, telecoms, and much of health care.

Financial Services / Banking

Banks, insurers, asset managers.

Ways & Means / Finance

Tax, trade, Medicare — which reaches managed care.

Agriculture

Agribusiness, commodities, crop insurance.

Judiciary

Antitrust — which is why large technology sits here.

Commerce, Science & Transportation

Telecoms, aviation, and semiconductor policy.

Jurisdictions overlap and shift between congresses. A single company can fall under three committees at once, so an overlap flag is a statement about one mapped relationship, not an exhaustive one.

What an overlap is not

It is also lagged by law. Every filing is up to 45 days old when it becomes public, so anything derived from one describes the past — which is exactly why this is an accountability record and not a market product.

Sources

• Congress.gov — Committees
• CRS — Committee jurisdiction and referral

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