TheUnited States Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee (DSOC) is acommittee of the United States Senate dedicated to fostering dialogue between Senate Democrats and community leaders across the United States. The Steering Committee hosts several meetings each year with advocates, activists, policy experts, and elected officials to help the structuring of the Democrats' agenda in the United States Senate.^[1] Some of these meetings also happen annually such as with U.S. Jewish groups to discuss theU.S. Israel relations and theJewish community in the United States.^[2]

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AfterBill Nelson lost his2018 reelection bid,^[5] he left the committee and his position was left unfilled.

In November 2008, followingthat year's presidential election, the committee, whose responsibilities include proposing chairmanships and committee assignments to be ratified by theDemocratic caucus, considered strippingConnecticut senatorJoe Lieberman of his Chairmanship of theUnited States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs after he endorsedRepublican senatorJohn McCain in his2008 presidential campaign. Many within the caucus expressed disappointment over his fervent support for McCain and his questioning of then-Democratic senatorBarack Obama's qualifications to run for the position.^[9] Ultimately, the caucus voted 42–13 to allow Lieberman to retain his chairmanship while sanctioning him to be removed from theUnited States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.^[10]

In November 2016, after DemocratHillary Clinton lost the2016 United States presidential election, then-Senate Democratic Leader-electChuck Schumer announcedBernie Sanders would fill the newly established position of Outreach Chair in the committee. Sanders came to prominence during the2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries and his appointment was seen as a broader acknowledgment of his role in galvanizing the electorate. This made Sanders the first independent to hold a leadership position within the Democratic Party.^[8]

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