United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is a committee of the U.S. Senate, which deals with public buildings, especially infrastructure and the environment, busy. The Committee went out of various committees produced for public buildings and includes since 1977 also explicitly responsible for environmental issues.
- 3.1 Committee on Public Buildings, 1838-1857
- 3.2 Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1857-1883
- 3.3 Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1883-1947
- 3.4 Senate Committee on Public Works, 1947-1977
- 3.5 Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, since 1977
Members in the 113th Congress
Committee Chairman since 2007, Democrat Barbara Boxer of California. Ranking Minority Member is Republican David Vitter of Louisiana.
Democrats
Republican
Subcommittees
- Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Chairman: Tom Carper (D -DE)
- Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R- AL)
- Chairman: Jeff Merkley (D -OR)
- Ranking Member: Roger Wicker ( R -MS)
- Chairman: Sheldon Whitehouse ( D -RI )
- Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R- OK)
- Chairman: Tom Udall (D -NM)
- Ranking Member: Mike Crapo (R- ID)
- Chairman Max Baucus (D -MT)
- Ranking Member: John Barrasso (R- WY)
- Chairman: Ben Cardin (D -MD)
- Ranking Member John Boozman (R- AK)
Former Chairman
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) from 1845 to 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) from 1895 to 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) from 1953 to 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