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 U.S. Senate Committee on Public Lands , created in 1816. This committee was renamed the U.S. Senate 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 U.S. Senate 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.

Members

The Committee is chaired by Senator Pete Domenici (Republican of New Mexico), and the ranking Democrat is Jeff Bingaman, also of New Mexico. The members of the Committee are:

• Pete Domenici (R-NM), chairman
• Larry Craig (R-Idaho)
• Craig Thomas (R-Wyoming)
• Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee)
• Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
• Richard Burr (R-North Carolina)
• Mel Martinez (R-Florida)
• James Talent (R-Missouri)
• Conrad Burns (R-Montana)
• George Allen (R-Virginia)
• Gordon Smith (R-Oregon)
• Jim Bunning (R-Kentucky)

• Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico), ranking minority member
• Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii)
• Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota)
• Ron Wyden (D-Oregon)
• Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota)
• Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana)
• Dianne Feinstein (D-California)
• Maria Cantwell (D-Washington)
• Jon Corzine (D-New Jersey)
• Ken Salazar (D-Colorado)

Subcommittees

• U.S. Senate Energy Subcommittee on Energy
  • Chairman: Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
  • Ranking Member: Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
• U.S. Senate Energy Subcommittee on National Parks
  • Chairman: Craig Thomas (R-WY)
  • Ranking Member: Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
• U.S. Senate Energy Subcommitte on Public Lands and Forests
  • Chairman: Larry Craig (R-ID)
  • Ranking Member: Ron Wyden (D-OR)
• U.S. Senate Energy Subcommittee on Water and Power
  • Chairman: Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
  • Ranking Member: Tim Johnson (D-SD)

Chairmen

Chairmen of the Senate 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 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 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

Chairmen of the Senate 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 Wagner (D-NY) 1933-1937
• Alva B. Adams (D-CO) 1937-1941
• Carl A. Hatch (D-NM) 1941-1947

Chairmen of the Committee on Public Lands, 1947-1948

• Hugh Butler (R-NE) 1947-1948

Chairmen of the 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
• Henry M. Jackson (D-WA) 1963-1977

Chairmen of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 1977-present

• Henry M. Jackson (D-WA) 1977-1981
• James A. McClure (R-ID) 1981-1987
• J. Bennett Johnston (D-LA) 1987-1995
• Frank H. Murkowski (R-AK) 1995-2001
• Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 2001
• Frank H. Murkowski (R-AK) 2001
• Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) 2001-2003
• Pete Domenici (R-NM) 2003-present

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