| | | Amos E. Wood (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died November 19, 1850 | | John Bell (W) | Seated January 7, 1851 |- | | | David S. Kaufman (D) | style="font-size:80%" | Died January 31, 1851 | Vacant | Not filled this term |} Committees Lists of committees and their party leaders. Senate Agriculture (Chairman: Daniel Sturgeon) Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate (Chairman: Augustus Dodge) California's Admission to the Union (Select) Claims (Chairman: Moses Norris Jr.) Commerce (Chairman: Clement C. Clay) Disorder in the Senate of April 17, 1850 (Select) Distributing Public Revenue Among the States (Select) District of Columbia (Chairman: James M. Mason) Eligibility of James Shields (Special) Finance (Chairman: Daniel S. Dickinson then James Pearce) Foreign Relations (Chairman: William R. King then Henry S. Foote) French Spoilations (Select) (Chairman: Truman Smith) Indian Affairs (Chairman: David R. Atchison) Judiciary (Chairman: Andrew P. Butler) Manufactures (Chairman: William K. Sebastian) Mexican Boundary Commission (Select) Military Affairs (Chairman: Jefferson Davis) Militia (Chairman: Sam Houston) Naval Affairs (Chairman: David Levy Yulee) Ordnance and War Ships (Select) Patents and the Patent Office (Chairman: David S. Reid) Pensions (Chairman: George Wallace Jones) Post Office and Post Roads (Chairman: Thomas J. Rusk) Printing (Chairman: Solon Borland) Private Land Claims (Chairman: Solomon W. Downs) Public Buildings and Grounds (Chairman: Robert M.T. Hunter) Public Lands (Chairman: Alpheus Felch) Retrenchment (Chairman: James W. Bradbury) Revolutionary Claims (Chairman: Isaac P. Walker) Roads and Canals (Chairman: Jesse D. Bright) Seventh Census (Select) Settlement of the Slavery Question (Select) Tariff Regulation (Select) Territories (Chairman: Stephen A. Douglas) Whole House of Representatives Accounts (Chairman: Daniel P. King) Agriculture (Chairman: Nathaniel S. Littlefield) Bounty Land Act of 1850 (Select) Claims (Chairman: John Reeves Jones Daniel) Commerce (Chairman: Robert M. McLane) District of Columbia (Chairman: Albert G. Brown) Elections (Chairman: William Strong) Engraving (Chairman: Edward Hammond) Expenditures in the Navy Department (Chairman: Alexander Holladay) Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Chairman: William Thompson) Expenditures in the State Department (Chairman: Kingsley S. Bingham) Expenditures in the Treasury Department (Chairman: George A. Caldwell) Expenditures in the War Department (Chairman: Milo M. Dimmick) Expenditures on Public Buildings (Chairman: James M. H. Beale) Foreign Affairs (Chairman: John A. McClernand) Indian Affairs (Chairman: Robert W. Johnson) Invalid Pensions (Chairman: Shepherd Leffler) Judiciary (Chairman: James Thompson) Manufactures (Chairman: Lucius B. Peck) Mileage (Chairman: Graham N. Fitch) Military Affairs (Chairman: Armistead Burt) Militia (Chairman: Charles