United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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 Interior and Insulars Affair'. In 1977, it became the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Indian Affairs were removed from its jurisdiction into its own committee.

Members, 114th Congress

Majority	Minority
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska, Chair John Barrasso, Wyoming Jim Risch, Idaho Mike Lee, Utah Jeff Flake, Arizona Bill Cassidy, Louisiana Cory Gardner, Colorado Steve Daines, Montana Rob Portman, Ohio John Hoeven, North Dakota Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia	Maria Cantwell, Washington, Ranking Member Ron Wyden, Oregon Bernie Sanders, Vermont Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Al Franken, Minnesota Joe Manchin, West Virginia Martin Heinrich, New Mexico Mazie Hirono, Hawaii Angus King, Maine Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts

Source: 2013 Congressional Record, Vol. 159, Page S296

Subcommittees

The Energy Committee has four subcommittees:

Subcommittee	Chair	Ranking Member
Energy	Jim Risch (R-ID)	Joe Manchin (D-WV)
National Parks	Rob Portman (R-OH)	Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Public Lands, Forests and Mining	John Barrasso (R-WY)	Ron Wyden (D-OR)
Water and Power	Mike Lee (R-UT)	Brian Schatz (D-HI)

Chairmen

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

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

Committee on Public Lands, 1947–1948

• Hugh Butler (R-NE) 1947–1948

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

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 1977–present

• Scoop Jackson (D-WA) 1977–1981
• James McClure (R-ID) 1981–1987
• Bennett Johnston (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) 2007–2013
• Ron Wyden (D-OR) 2013–2014
• Mary Landrieu (D-LA) July 2014–Dec 2014
• Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) 2015-present

External links

• Official Committee Website
• Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee member profiles collected news and commentary at The Washington Post

See also

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