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The United States Senate
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 Committee on Environment and Public Works
is responsible for dealing with matters related to the environment and infrastructure.
Committee is chaired by Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party . It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world....
 Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer

Barbara Levy Boxer is an United States Democratic Party politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of California. She holds the record for the most popular votes in a statewide contested election in California, having received 6,955,728 votes in her 2004 re-election over former Republican Party California Secretary...
 of California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 and the Ranking Minority Member
Ranking member

In Politics of the United States, the ranking member or ranking minority member is a member of a United States Congress or State_legislature_ committee from the minority party, frequently the member with the highest seniority....
 is Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
. Effective with the 110th Congress, the number of subcommittees has been expanded from four to six, with the creation of the Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, Children's Health Protection and Nuclear Safety and the Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality.






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The United States Senate
United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism United States Congress, the lower house being the United States House of Representatives....
 Committee on Environment and Public Works
is responsible for dealing with matters related to the environment and infrastructure.

Members, 111th Congress
111th United States Congress

The One Hundred Eleventh United States Congress is the List of United States Congresses of the United States Congress, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....

The Committee is chaired by Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party . It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world....
 Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer

Barbara Levy Boxer is an United States Democratic Party politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of California. She holds the record for the most popular votes in a statewide contested election in California, having received 6,955,728 votes in her 2004 re-election over former Republican Party California Secretary...
 of California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
 and the Ranking Minority Member
Ranking member

In Politics of the United States, the ranking member or ranking minority member is a member of a United States Congress or State_legislature_ committee from the minority party, frequently the member with the highest seniority....
 is Republican James Inhofe of Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
. Effective with the 110th Congress, the number of subcommittees has been expanded from four to six, with the creation of the Subcommittee on Public Sector Solutions to Global Warming, Oversight, Children's Health Protection and Nuclear Safety and the Subcommittee on Transportation Safety, Infrastructure Security, and Water Quality. The remaining subcommittees received slight changes and updated oversight responsibilities.

Majority Minority
  • Barbara Boxer
    Barbara Boxer

    Barbara Levy Boxer is an United States Democratic Party politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of California. She holds the record for the most popular votes in a statewide contested election in California, having received 6,955,728 votes in her 2004 re-election over former Republican Party California Secretary...
    , Chairwoman, California
  • Max Baucus
    Max Baucus

    Max Sieben Baucus is the senior United States Senate from Montana and is a member of the United States Democratic Party. Baucus is currently chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and the 7th-longest-serving current Senator....
    , Montana
  • Tom Carper, Delaware
  • Frank Lautenberg
    Frank Lautenberg

    Frank Raleigh Lautenberg is an United States businessman and Democratic Party politician. Now the senior United States Senate from New Jersey, he is in his second non-consecutive term in office, first serving from 1982 to 2001, and again since 2003....
    , New Jersey
  • Ben Cardin
    Ben Cardin

    Benjamin Louis "Ben" Cardin is the Seniority in the United States Senate United States Senate from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party ....
    , Maryland
  • Bernie Sanders
    Bernie Sanders

    Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is the senate seniority United States Senate from Vermont, elected on November 7, 2006. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for 16 years....
    , Vermont
  • Amy Klobuchar
    Amy Klobuchar

    Amy Jean Klobuchar is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party ....
    , Minnesota
  • Sheldon Whitehouse
    Sheldon Whitehouse

    Sheldon Whitehouse is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democratic Party , he previously served as United States Attorney and state Attorney General for Rhode Island....
    , Rhode Island
  • Tom Udall
    Tom Udall

    Thomas Stewart Udall is the Seniority in the United States Senate United States Senate from New Mexico and a member of the Democratic Party . He had represented as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999....
    , New Mexico
  • Jeff Merkley
    Jeff Merkley

    Jeffrey Alan Merkley is the Seniority in the United States Senate United States Senate from Oregon. A member of the Democratic Party , Merkley was a five-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly representing House District 47, located in eastern Multnomah County, Oregon within the Portland, Oregon city limits....
    , Oregon
  • Kirsten Gillibrand
    Kirsten Gillibrand

    Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik Gillibrand is the Seniority in the United States Senate United States Senate from New York and a member of the Democratic Party ....
    , New York
  • James Inhofe
    Jim Inhofe

    James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe is an United States politician from Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party , he currently serves as the Senior Senator United States Senate from Oklahoma....
    , Ranking Member, Oklahoma
  • George Voinovich
    George Voinovich

    George Victor Voinovich is the Senate seniority United States Senate from the U.S. state of Ohio, and a member of the Republican Party . Previously, he served as the 65th List of Governors of Ohio from 1991 to 1998, and as the 54th List of mayors of Cleveland, Ohio of Cleveland, Ohio from 1980 to 1989....
    , Ohio
  • David Vitter
    David Vitter

    David Bruce Vitter is the Junior Senator United States Senate from Louisiana and a member of the Republican Party . Formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives, first elected in 1999, representing the suburbs Louisiana's 1st congressional district, Vitter was elected to the Senate in 2004....
    , Louisiana
  • Lamar Alexander
    Lamar Alexander

    Andrew Lamar Alexander is the senior United States Senate from Tennessee and Conference Chair of the Republican Party . He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S....
    , Tennessee
  • Kit Bond
    Kit Bond

    Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond is a former governor of Missouri and current senior United States United States Senate from Missouri. He has been in the Senate since 1987 and is a member of the Republican Party ....
    , Missouri
  • John Barrasso
    John Barrasso

    John Anthony Barrasso is a Republican Party United States senator from Wyoming. He was appointed by Governor Dave Freudenthal to succeed the late Craig L....
    , Wyoming
  • Arlen Specter
    Arlen Specter

    Arlen Specter is the senior senator United States Senate from Pennsylvania and a member of the United States Republican Party. Elected in 1980, he is currently the Seniority in the United States Senate as well as 5th most senior Republican in this body....
    , Pennsylvania
  • Mike Crapo
    Mike Crapo

    Michael Dean "Mike" Crapo is the senior United States Senate from Idaho. He is a member of the Republican Party . He became Idaho's Senior Senator in January 2009, as Larry Craig did not seek reelection in 2008....
    , Idaho


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    Subcommittees

    Subcommittees of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
    Subcommittee Chair Ranking Minority Member
    Children's Health
    United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children's Health

    The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children's Health is one of seven subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works....
    Amy Klobuchar
    Amy Klobuchar

    Amy Jean Klobuchar is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party ....
     (D-MN)
    Lamar Alexander
    Lamar Alexander

    Andrew Lamar Alexander is the senior United States Senate from Tennessee and Conference Chair of the Republican Party . He was previously the 45th Governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, U.S....
     (R-TN)
    Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
    United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety

    The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety is one of seven subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works....
    Thomas R. Carper
    Thomas R. Carper

    Thomas Richard "Tom" Carper is an United States economist and politician from Wilmington, Delaware, in New Castle County, Delaware, Delaware. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a member of the Democratic Party , a five-term United States House of Representatives, a two-term Governor of Delaware, and currently the senior United States Senate...
     (D-DE)
    David Vitter
    David Vitter

    David Bruce Vitter is the Junior Senator United States Senate from Louisiana and a member of the Republican Party . Formerly a member of the United States House of Representatives, first elected in 1999, representing the suburbs Louisiana's 1st congressional district, Vitter was elected to the Senate in 2004....
     (R-LA)
    Green Jobs and the New Economy
    United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy

    The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Green Job and the New Economy is one of seven subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works....
    Bernie Sanders
    Bernie Sanders

    Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is the senate seniority United States Senate from Vermont, elected on November 7, 2006. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for 16 years....
     (D-VT)
    Christopher Bond
    Christopher Bond

    Christopher Bond is a United Kingdom playwright whose 1973retelling of the Victorian era tale Sweeney Todd formed the basis of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd , with book by Hugh Wheeler....
     (R-MO)
    Oversight
    United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Oversight

    The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Green Job and the New Economy is one of seven subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works....
    Sheldon Whitehouse
    Sheldon Whitehouse

    Sheldon Whitehouse is the Junior Senator from the state of Rhode Island. A Democratic Party , he previously served as United States Attorney and state Attorney General for Rhode Island....
     (D-RI)
    John Barrasso
    John Barrasso

    John Anthony Barrasso is a Republican Party United States senator from Wyoming. He was appointed by Governor Dave Freudenthal to succeed the late Craig L....
     (R-WY)
    Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health Frank Lautenberg
    Frank Lautenberg

    Frank Raleigh Lautenberg is an United States businessman and Democratic Party politician. Now the senior United States Senate from New Jersey, he is in his second non-consecutive term in office, first serving from 1982 to 2001, and again since 2003....
     (D-NJ)
    Arlen Specter
    Arlen Specter

    Arlen Specter is the senior senator United States Senate from Pennsylvania and a member of the United States Republican Party. Elected in 1980, he is currently the Seniority in the United States Senate as well as 5th most senior Republican in this body....
     (R-PA)
    Transportation and Infrastructure
    United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

    The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure is one of seven subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works....
    Max Baucus
    Max Baucus

    Max Sieben Baucus is the senior United States Senate from Montana and is a member of the United States Democratic Party. Baucus is currently chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and the 7th-longest-serving current Senator....
     (D-MT)
    George Voinovich
    George Voinovich

    George Victor Voinovich is the Senate seniority United States Senate from the U.S. state of Ohio, and a member of the Republican Party . Previously, he served as the 65th List of Governors of Ohio from 1991 to 1998, and as the 54th List of mayors of Cleveland, Ohio of Cleveland, Ohio from 1980 to 1989....
     (R-OH)
    Water and Wildlife
    United States Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife

    The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife is one of seven subcommittees of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works....
    Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) Mike Crapo
    Mike Crapo

    Michael Dean "Mike" Crapo is the senior United States Senate from Idaho. He is a member of the Republican Party . He became Idaho's Senior Senator in January 2009, as Larry Craig did not seek reelection in 2008....
     (R-ID)


    Chairmen


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

    • William S. Fulton (D-AR) 1838-1841
    • John Leeds Kerr
      John Leeds Kerr

      John Leeds Kerr was an United States politician....
       (W-MD) 1841-1842
    • William L. Dayton
      William L. Dayton

      William Lewis Dayton was an United States politician.A distant relation of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and United States Constitution signatory Jonathan Dayton, he was born in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, New Jersey to farmer Joel Dayton and his wife....
       (W-NJ) 1842-1845
    • Simon Cameron
      Simon Cameron

      Simon Cameron was an United States politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War....
       (D-PA) 1845-1846
    • Jesse D. Bright
      Jesse D. Bright

      Jesse David Bright was a Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and United States Senate from Indiana who served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate of the Senate on three separate occasions....
       (D-IN) 1846-1847
    • Robert M. T. Hunter (D-VA) 1847-1851
    • James Whitcomb
      James Whitcomb

      James Whitcomb was a United States Democratic Party United States Senator and Governor of Indiana. For his acts in helping the state avoid bankruptcy, Whitcomb is usually credited as being one of the greatest of Indiana's governors....
       (D-IN) 1851-1852
    • Charles James
      Charles James

      Charles James may refer to:* Charles James , former U.S. assistant attorney general* Charles James * Charles Holloway James, architect * Charles Tillinghast James , U.S....
       (D-RI) 1852-1853
    • James Bayard
      James Bayard

      James Bayard may refer to:*James A. Bayard , U.S. Senator from Delaware*James A. Bayard, Jr. , U.S. Senator from Delaware*Jamie Bayard of So You Think You Can Dance?...
       (D-DE) 1853-1857

    Chairmen of the Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 1857-1883

    • Jesse D. Bright
      Jesse D. Bright

      Jesse David Bright was a Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and United States Senate from Indiana who served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate of the Senate on three separate occasions....
       (D-IN) 1857-1861
    • Solomon Foot
      Solomon Foot

      Solomon Foot was Vermont lawyer, state representative and later United States Senate who spent more than 25 years in elected office. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1826 and was admitted to the bar in 1831....
       (R-VT) 1861-1866
    • B. Gratz Brown
      B. Gratz Brown

      Benjamin Gratz Brown was a United States Senate, Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican Party and Democratic Party Vice President of the United States candidate in the U.S....
       (R-MO) 1866-1867
    • William P. Fessenden
      William P. Fessenden

      William Pitt Fessenden was an Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Maine.Fessenden was a United States Whig Party and member of the List of United States political families#The Fessendens....
       (R-ME) 1867-1869
    • Justin S. Morrill (R-VT) 1869-1878
    • Henry Dawes (R-MA) 1878-1879
    • Charles W. Jones
      Charles W. Jones

      Charles William Jones was a United States Senate from Florida. He abandoned the seat after an apparent onset of mental illness....
       (D-FL) 1879-1881
    • Edward H. Rollins
      Edward H. Rollins

      Edward Henry Rollins was a United States Representative and United States Senate from New Hampshire.Born in a part of Somersworth, New Hampshire which is now Rollinsford, New Hampshire , he attended the common schools and academies in Dover, New Hampshire and South Berwick, Maine....
       (R-NH) 1881-1883

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

    • William Mahone
      William Mahone

      William Mahone , of Southampton County, Virginia, was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and Congress of the United States....
       (R-VA) 1883-1887
    • Leland Stanford
      Leland Stanford

      Amasa Leland Stanford was an American tycoon, politician and founder of Stanford University....
       (R-CA) 1887-1893
    • George Vest (D-MO) 1893-1895
    • Matthew S. Quay (R-PA) 1895-1899
    • Charles W. Fairbanks
      Charles W. Fairbanks

      Charles Warren Fairbanks was a United States Senate from Indiana and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States....
       (R-IN) 1899-1905
    • Nathan Scott
      Nathan Scott

      Nathan Royal Scott is a fictional character on the The CW Television Network television series One Tree Hill , played by James Lafferty. Nathan is Lucas Scott's half brother, Haley James Scott's husband, the father of James Lucas Scott, and the cousin of Lily Scott....
       (R-WV) 1905-1911
    • George Sutherland
      George Sutherland

      George Sutherland was an England-born United States of America jurist and political figure. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G....
       (R-UT) 1911-1913
    • Claude A. Swanson
      Claude A. Swanson

      Claude Augustus Swanson was an United States lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Virginia.He served seven terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1893 until 1906, was the Governor of Virginia from 1906 until 1910, and represented Virginia as a United States Senate from 1910 until 1933....
       (D-VA) 1913-1918
    • James A. Reed
      James A. Reed

      James Alexander Reed was an American United States Democratic Party politician from Missouri.Reed was born on a farm in Richland County, Ohio....
       (D-MO) 1918-1919
    • Bert M. Fernald
      Bert M. Fernald

      Bert Manfred Fernald was a United States Senator and Governor of Maine.Born in Poland, Maine, Maine, he attended the public schools, Hebron Academy and a business and preparatory school in Boston....
       (R-ME) 1919-1926
    • Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI) 1926-1927
    • Henry W. Keyes
      Henry W. Keyes

      Henry Wilder Keyes was an United States farmer, banker, and Republican Party politician from Haverhill, New Hampshire. Born in 1863 in Newbury, Vermont, he was raised in New Hampshire....
       (R-NH) 1927-1933
    • Tom Connally
      Tom Connally

      Thomas Terry Connally was an United States politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the United States House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party ....
       (D-TX) 1933-1942
    • Francis Maloney
      Francis T. Maloney

      Francis Thomas Maloney was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1933 to 1935 and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut from 1935 to 1945. He was a Democratic Party ....
       (D-CT) 1942-1945
    • Charles O. Andrews
      Charles O. Andrews

      Charles Oscar Andrews was a United States Democratic Party politician from Florida, who represented the Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 until 1946....
       (D-FL) 1945-1947

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

    • Chapman Revercomb (R-WV) 1947-1949
    • Dennis Chavez
      Dennis Chavez

      Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was a United States Democratic Party politician from the United States State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962....
       (D-NM) 1949-1953
    • Edward Martin
      Edward Martin

      Edward Martin was an United States lawyer and Republican Party politician from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Martin served as a General in the United States National Guard and later retired from military service and went on to serve as Governor of Pennsylvania and then United States Senator....
       (R-PA) 1953-1955
    • Dennis Chavez
      Dennis Chavez

      Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was a United States Democratic Party politician from the United States State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962....
       (D-NM) 1955-1962
    • Patrick V. McNamara
      Patrick V. McNamara

      Patrick Vincent McNamara was a Democratic Party United States Senate from the U.S. state of Michigan.McNamara was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts and attended the public schools in nearby Weymouth, Massachusetts and the Fore River Apprentice School in Quincy, Massachusetts....
       (D-MI) 1962-1966
    • Jennings Randolph
      Jennings Randolph

      Jennings Randolph was an United States politician from West Virginia. He was a member of the United States Democratic Party and was the last surviving member of the United States Congress to have served during the first 100 days of Franklin D....
       (D-WV) 1966-1977

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

    • Jennings Randolph
      Jennings Randolph

      Jennings Randolph was an United States politician from West Virginia. He was a member of the United States Democratic Party and was the last surviving member of the United States Congress to have served during the first 100 days of Franklin D....
       (D-WV) 1977-1981
    • Robert T. Stafford (R-VT) 1981-1987
    • Quentin N. Burdick
      Quentin N. Burdick

      Quentin Northrup Burdick was a United States Senate from North Dakota from August 8, 1960 until his death in 1992. Prior to that he had served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1959 to August 8, 1960....
       (D-ND) 1987-1992
    • Daniel Patrick Moynihan
      Daniel Patrick Moynihan

      For the U.S. Representative from Illinois, see P. H. MoynihanDaniel Patrick ?Pat? Moynihan was an United States politician and sociologist....
       (D-NY) 1992-1993
    • Max Baucus
      Max Baucus

      Max Sieben Baucus is the senior United States Senate from Montana and is a member of the United States Democratic Party. Baucus is currently chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Finance and the 7th-longest-serving current Senator....
       (D-MT) 1993-1995
    • John H. Chafee
      John Chafee

      John Lester Hubbard Chafee was an United States politician. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps, as List of Governors of Rhode Island, as the United States Secretary of the Navy, and as a United States Senate....
       (R-RI) 1995-1999
    • Robert C. Smith
      Robert C. Smith

      Robert C. "Bob" Smith is an United States politician who has served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate....
       (R-NH) 1999-2001
    • Harry Reid
      Harry Reid

      Harry Mason Reid is the Senior Senator United States Senate from Nevada and a member of the Democratic Party , as well as the U.S. Senate Majority Leader for the 110th Congress....
       (D-NV) 2001
    • Robert C. Smith
      Robert C. Smith

      Robert C. "Bob" Smith is an United States politician who has served in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate....
       (R-NH) 2001
    • James Jeffords (I-VT) 2001-2003
    • James Inhofe (R-OK) 2003-2007
    • Barbara Boxer
      Barbara Boxer

      Barbara Levy Boxer is an United States Democratic Party politician and the current junior U.S. Senator from the U.S. state of California. She holds the record for the most popular votes in a statewide contested election in California, having received 6,955,728 votes in her 2004 re-election over former Republican Party California Secretary...
       (D-CA) 2007-present


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