United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is a committee of the US Senate that deals with public works, especially infrastructure and the environment. The committee emerged from various committees for public buildings and, since 1977, has also been explicitly responsible for environmental issues.
Members of the 113th Congress
The committee chairman has been Republican Jim Inhofe from Oklahoma since 2015 , ranking member is his predecessor, Democrat Barbara Boxer from California .
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Democrats
Subcommittees
- Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
- Chairman: Tom Carper (D-DE)
- Ranking Member: Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
- Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy
- Chairman: Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Ranking Member: Roger Wicker (R-MS)
- Subcommittee on Oversight
- Chairman: Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Ranking Member: Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
- Subcommittee on Superfund , Toxics and Environmental Health
- Chairman: Tom Udall (D-NM)
- Ranking Member: Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Chairman: Max Baucus (D-MT)
- Ranking Member: John Barrasso (R-WY)
- Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
- Chairman: Ben Cardin (D-MD)
- Ranking Member: John Boozman (R-AK)
Former Chair
Committee on Public Buildings, 1838-1857
- William Savin Fulton (D-AR) 1838-1841
- John Leeds Kerr (W-MD) 1841-1842
- William L. Dayton (W-NJ) 1842-1845
- Simon Cameron (D-PA) 1845-1846
- Jesse D. Bright (D-IN) 1846-1847
- Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (D-VA) 1847-1851
- James Whitcomb (D-IN) 1851-1852
- Charles Tillinghast James (D-RI) 1852-1853
- James A. Bayard Jr. (D-DE) 1853-1857
Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1857-1883
- Jesse D. Bright (D-IN) 1857-1861
- Solomon Foot (R-VT) 1861-1866
- B. Gratz Brown (R-MO) 1866-1867
- William P. Fessenden (R-ME) 1867-1869
- Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT) 1869-1878
- Henry L. Dawes (R-MA) 1878-1879
- Charles W. Jones (D-FL) 1879-1881
- Edward H. Rollins (R-NH) 1881-1883
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1883-1947
- William Mahone (R-VA) 1883-1887
- Leland Stanford (R-CA) 1887-1893
- George Graham Vest (D-MO) 1893-1895
- Matthew Quay (R-PA) 1895-1899
- Charles W. Fairbanks (R-IN) 1899-1905
- Nathan B. Scott (R-WV) 1905-1911
- George Sutherland (R-UT) 1911-1913
- Claude A. Swanson (D-VA) 1913-1918
- James A. Reed (D-MO) 1918-1919
- Bert M. Fernald (R-ME) 1919-1926
- Irvine Lenroot (R-WI) 1926-1927
- Henry W. Keyes (R-NH) 1927-1933
- Tom Connally (D-TX) 1933-1942
- Francis T. Maloney (D-CT) 1942-1945
- Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) 1945-1947
Senate Committee on Public Works, 1947–1977
- W. Chapman Revercomb (R-WV) 1947-1949
- Dennis Chavez (D-NM) 1949-1953
- Edward Martin (R-PA) 1953-1955
- Dennis Chavez (D-NM) 1955-1962
- Patrick V. McNamara (D-MI) 1962-1966
- Jennings Randolph (D-WV) 1966-1977
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, since 1977
- Jennings Randolph (D-WV) 1977-1981
- Robert Stafford (R-VT) 1981-1987
- Quentin N. Burdick (D-ND) 1987-1992
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) 1992-1993
- Max Baucus (D-MT) 1993-1995
- John Chafee (R-RI) 1995-1999
- Robert C. Smith (R-NH) 1999-2001
- Harry Reid (D-NV) 2001
- Robert C. Smith (R-NH) 2001
- Jim Jeffords (I-VT) 2001-2003
- Jim Inhofe (R-OK) 2003-2007
- Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 2007-2015
- John Barrasso (R-WY) since 2015