United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works

The United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is responsible for dealing with matters related to the environment and infrastructure.

Members, 113th Congress 1
Subcommittees 2
Chairmen 3
- Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings, 1838–1857 3.1
- Chairmen of the Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1857–1883 3.2
- Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1883–1947 3.3
- Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Public Works, 1947–1977 3.4
- Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 1977–present 3.5
References 4
External links 5

Members, 113th Congress

Majority	Minority
Barbara Boxer, California, Chair Tom Carper, Delaware Ben Cardin, Maryland Bernie Sanders, Vermont^[1] Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Tom Udall, New Mexico Jeff Merkley, Oregon Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Cory Booker, New Jersey Ed Markey, Massachusetts	David Vitter, Louisiana, Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, Oklahoma John Barrasso, Wyoming Jeff Sessions, Alabama Mike Crapo, Idaho Roger Wicker, Mississippi John Boozman, Arkansas Deb Fischer, Nebraska

Source:

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Clean Air and Nuclear Safety	Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)	Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Green Jobs and the New Economy	Jeff Merkley (D-OR)	Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Oversight	Cory Booker (D-NJ)	James Inhofe (R-OK)
Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health	Tom Udall (D-NM)	Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Transportation and Infrastructure	Tom Carper (D-DE)	John Barrasso (R-WY)
Water and Wildlife	Ben Cardin (D-MD)	John Boozman (R-AR)

Chairmen

Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings, 1838–1857

William S. 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 M. T. Hunter (D-VA) 1847–1851
James Whitcomb (D-IN) 1851–1852
Charles James (D-RI) 1852–1853
James Bayard (D-DE) 1853–1857

Chairmen of the 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 S. Morrill (R-VT) 1869–1878
Henry Dawes (R-MA) 1878–1879
Charles W. Jones (D-FL) 1879–1881
Edward H. Rollins (R-NH) 1881–1883

Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1883–1947

William Mahone (R-VA) 1883–1887
Leland Stanford (R-CA) 1887–1893
George Vest (D-MO) 1893–1895
Matthew S. Quay (R-PA) 1895–1899
Charles W. Fairbanks (R-IN) 1899–1905
Nathan 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 L. Lenroot (R-WI) 1926–1927
Henry W. Keyes (R-NH) 1927–1933
Tom Connally (D-TX) 1933–1942
Francis Maloney (D-CT) 1942–1945
Charles O. Andrews (D-FL) 1945–1947

Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Public Works, 1947–1977

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

Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 1977–present

Jennings Randolph (D-WV) 1977–1981
Robert T. 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 H. Chafee (R-RI) 1995–1999
Bob Smith (R-NH) 1999–2001
Harry Reid (D-NV) 2001
Bob Smith (R-NH) 2001
James Jeffords (I-VT) 2001–2003
James Inhofe (R-OK) 2003–2007
Barbara Boxer (D-CA) 2007–present

References

^ Bernie Sanders is an independent, but caucuses with Democrats.

External links

U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works official website
Public Works Agency – Public Works Industry Social Network including Municipal Contractors, Municipalities and Citizen Engagement
Citizen Request – Idea platform to capture citizen request, concerns and ideas where others vote and projects get done based on citizen inputs
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee member profiles collected news and commentary at The Washington Post

Current United States congressional committees

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House (list)	Agriculture Appropriations Armed Services Budget Education and the Workforce Energy and Commerce Ethics Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi (Select) Financial Services Foreign Affairs Homeland Security House Administration Intelligence (Permanent Select) Judiciary Natural Resources Oversight and Government Reform Rules Science, Space and Technology Small Business Transportation and Infrastructure Veterans' Affairs Ways and Means (Whole)

Joint (list)	(Conference) Economic Inaugural Ceremonies (Special) Library Printing Taxation

Defunct committees

Categories

Use mdy dates from February 2011
Committees of the United States Senate
Environment of the United States
1838 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1838

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