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The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has jurisdiction over matters related to energy and nuclear waste policy, territorial policy, native Hawaiian matters, and public lands.

Its roots go back to the Committee on Public Lands, created in 1816. This committee was renamed the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys in 1921, and then, upon merger with the Committee on Indian Affairs, the Committee on Territorial and Insular Affairs, the Committee on Mines and Mining, and the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation in 1946, became the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. In 1977, it became the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Indian Affairs were removed from its jurisdiction into its own committee.

[edit] Members, 111th Congress

The Committee is chaired by Democrat Jeff Bingaman, of New Mexico, and the Ranking Minority Member is Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

Majority	Minority
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico, Chairman Byron Dorgan, North Dakota Ron Wyden, Oregon Tim Johnson, South Dakota Mary Landrieu, Louisiana Maria Cantwell, Washington Bob Menendez, New Jersey Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas Bernie Sanders, Vermont^[1] Evan Bayh, Indiana Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Mark Udall, Colorado Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire	Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Ranking Member Richard Burr, North Carolina John Barrasso, Wyoming Sam Brownback, Kansas Jim Risch, Idaho John McCain, Arizona Bob Bennett, Utah Jim Bunning, Kentucky Jeff Sessions, Alabama Bob Corker, Tennessee

Source: 2009 Congressional Record, Vol. 155, Page S729 -730

[edit] Subcommittees

The Energy Committee operates with 4 subcommittees.

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Minority Member
Energy	Maria Cantwell (D-WA)	Jim Risch (R-ID)
National Parks	Mark Udall (D-CO)	Richard Burr (R-NC)
Public Lands and Forests	Ron Wyden (D-OR)	John Barrasso (R-WY)
Water and Power	Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)	Sam Brownback (R-KS)

[edit] Chairmen

[edit] Committee on Public Lands, 1816-1921

Jeremiah Morrow (R-OH) 1816-1819
Thomas Williams (R-MS) 1819-1820
Jesse Thomas (R-IL) 1820-1823
David Barton (NR-MO) 1823-1831
William R. King (D-AL) 1831-1832
Elias Kane (D-IL) 1832-1833
George Poindexter (W-MS) 1833-1835
Thomas Ewing (W-OH) 1835-1836
Robert Walker (D-MS) 1836-1841
Oliver Hampton Smith (W-IN) 1841-1843
William Woodbridge (W-MI) 1843-1845
Sidney Breese (D-IL) 1845-1849
Alpheus Felch (D-MI) 1849-1853
Solon Borland (D-AR) 1853
Augustus Dodge (D-IA) 1853-1855
Charles E. Stuart (D-MI) 1855-1859
Robert W. Johnson (D-AR) 1859-1861
James Harlan (R-IA) 1861-1865
Samuel Pomeroy (R-KS) 1865-1873
William Sprague (R-RI) 1873-1875
Richard Oglesby (R-IL) 1875-1879
Joseph E. McDonald (D-IN) 1879-1881
Preston Plumb (R-KS) 1881-1891
Joseph N. Dolph (R-OR) 1891-1893
James H. Berry (D-AR) 1893-1895
Fred T. Dubois (R-ID) 1895-1897
Henry C. Hansbrough (R-ND) 1897-1908
Knute Nelson (R-MN) 1908-1912
Reed Smoot (R-UT) 1912-1913
George E. Chamberlain (D-OR) 1913-1915
Henry L. Myers (D-MT) 1915-1919
Reed Smoot (R-UT) 1919-1921

[edit] Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, 1921-1947

Reed Smoot (R-UT) 1921-1923
Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI) 1923-1924
Edwin F. Ladd (R-ND) 1924
Robert Nelson Stanfield (R-OR) 1924-1927
Gerald P. Nye (R-ND) 1927-1933
John B. Kendrick (D-WY) 1933
Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) 1933-1937
Alva B. Adams (D-CO) 1937-1941
Carl A. Hatch (D-NM) 1941-1947

[edit] Committee on Public Lands, 1947-1948

Hugh Butler (R-NE) 1947-1948

[edit] Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, 1948-1977

Hugh Butler (R-NE) 1948-1949
Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D-WY) 1949-1953
Hugh Butler (R-NE) 1953-1954
Guy Cordon (R-OR) 1954-1955
James E. Murray (D-MT) 1955-1961
Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) 1961-1963
Scoop Jackson (D-WA) 1963-1977

[edit] Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 1977-present

Scoop Jackson (D-WA) 1977-1981
James McClure (R-ID) 1981-1987
Bennett Johnson (D-LA) 1987-1995
Frank Murkowski (R-AK) 1995-2001
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 2001
Frank Murkowski (R-AK) 2001
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 2001-2003
Pete Domenici (R-NM) 2003-2007
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 2007-present

[edit] References

^ Bernie Sanders is an Independent, but caucuses with Democrats on the committee.

[edit] External links

Official Committee Website

[edit] See also

The United States House Committee on Public Lands, was a predecessor of the United States House Committee on Resources

[0] Bernie Sanders is an Independent, but caucuses with Democrats on the committee.

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