INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT FEBRUARY 1887 INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT U.S GOV'T LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS/COMMERCE TRANSPORTATION U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION ECONOMY AND LABOR IN FEBRUARY 1887 CONGRESS PASSED THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT TO ENSURE REASONABLE AND FAIR RATES FOR INTERSTATE RAILROAD SHIPPING THE ACT ESTABLISHED THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION ICC WHICH WAS THE FIRST INDEPENDENT AGENCY DESIGNED TO REGULATE INTERSTATE COMMERCE THE ACT WAS PASSED SOON AFTER THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT STATES COULD NOT REGULATE RAILROADS CONDUCTING BUSINESS ACROSS STATE LINES THE FIRST COMMISSION HAD FIVE MEMBERS WHO WERE APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT THE PRESIDENT HOWEVER WAS NOT GIVEN THE POWER TO FIRE COMMISSION MEMBERS WHICH MEANT THAT THE AGENCY WAS IMMUNE TO POLITICAL PRESSURE THE ICC WAS LATER GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO REGULATE TRUCKS BUSES AND BARGES THE ICC REGULATED TRANSPORTATION UNTIL 1966 WHEN THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TOOK OVER
