United States House Committee on Natural Resources

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources or Natural Resources Committee (often referred to as simply Resources) is a Congressional committee of the United States House of Representatives. Originally called the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (1951), the name was changed to the Committee on Natural Resources in 1991. The name was shortened to the Committee on Resources in 1995 by the new chairman, Don Young (at the same time, the committee took over the duties of the now-defunct Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee). Following the Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives in 2006, the name of the committee was changed back to its title used between 1991 and 1995.[1]

House Natural Resources Committee
Standing committee
Active

United States House of Representatives
118th Congress
History
Formed1991
SucceededCommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Formerly known asCommittee on Resources
Leadership
ChairBruce Westerman (R)
Since January 3, 2023
Ranking memberRaúl Grijalva (D)
Since January 4, 2023
Structure
Seats45
Political partiesMajority (25)
  •   Republican (25)
Minority (20)
Jurisdiction
Policy areasEnergy development, mining, mineral rights, wildlife, fisheries, public lands, oceans, Native Americans
Oversight authorityDepartment of Energy
Senate counterpartSenate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittees
Meeting place
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Website
naturalresources.house.gov
republicans-naturalresources.house.gov
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    1. Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation.
    2. Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain.
    3. Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands.
    4. Geological Survey.
    5. International fishing agreements.
    6. Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes.
    7. Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects and easements of public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects.
    8. Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native American funds.
    9. Insular areas of the United States generally (except those affecting the revenue and appropriations).
    10. Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.
    11. Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
    12. Mineral resources of public lands.
    13. Mining interests generally.
    14. Mining schools and experimental stations.
    15. Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters).
    16. Oceanography.
    17. Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of the radium supply in the United States.
    18. Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain.
    19. Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon.
    20. Relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes.
    21. Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking).[2][3]

    Members, 118th Congress
    Majority Minority

    Resolutions electing members: H.Res. 14 (Chair), H.Res. 15 (Ranking Member), H.Res. 79 (D), H.Res. 80 (R), H.Res. 164 (D)

    Subcommittees
    Representative Kevin McCarthy (R) at an oversight hearing of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power

    In the 111th Congress, the number of subcommittees was reduced from 5 to 4. The Subcommittees on Insular Affairs and Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans were merged into the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife. In the 112th Congress, the number was again increased to 5, adding the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs.

    During the committee's official reorganization for the 113th Congress, the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands was renamed the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation[4]

    When former Chairman Doc Hastings of Washington retired from Congress, Rob Bishop of Utah took over as the committee's new chairman at the beginning of the 114th Congress. Congressman Bishop began the process of hiring new staff and reorganized the committee's structure as his predecessors had done.[5][6] The chairman eliminated the Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs subcommittee and split its duties between the renamed Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs and Water, Power and Oceans subcommittees. The chairman also created a new Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, keeping the total number of subcommittees at five[7]

    The chairman also transferred jurisdiction over the National Environmental Policy Act and the Endangered Species Act from the former Public Lands and Environmental Regulation and established a renamed the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.[7]

    Current subcommittees
    Subcommittee Chair[8] Ranking Member[lower-alpha 1]
    Energy and Mineral Resources Pete Stauber (R-MN) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
    Federal Lands Tom Tiffany (R-WI) Joe Neguse (D-CO)
    Indian and Insular Affairs Harriet Hageman (R-WY) Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM)
    Oversight and Investigations Paul Gosar (R-AZ) Melanie Stansbury (D-NM)
    Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Cliff Bentz (R-OR) Jared Huffman (D-CA)

    Chairs
    ChairPartyStateStart of serviceEnd of service
    Committee on Public Lands
    Andrew GreggDemocratic-RepublicanPennsylvania18051806
    John BoyleDemocratic-RepublicanKentucky18061807
    Andrew GreggDemocratic-RepublicanPennsylvania1807
    John BoyleDemocratic-RepublicanKentucky18071808
    Jeremiah MorrowDemocratic-RepublicanOhio18081813
    Samuel McKeeDemocratic-RepublicanKentucky18131815
    Thomas B. RobertsonDemocratic-RepublicanLouisiana18151818
    George PoindexterDemocratic-RepublicanMississippi18181819
    Richard C. AndersonDemocratic-RepublicanKentucky18191821
    Christopher RankinJacksonianMississippi18211826
    John ScottAnti-JacksonianMissouri18261827
    Jacob C. IsacksJacksonianTennessee18271830
    Charles A. WickliffeJacksonianKentucky18301833
    Clement C. ClayDemocraticAlabama18331835
    Ratliff BoonDemocraticIndiana18351838
    Zadok CaseyDemocraticIllinois18381839
    Thomas CorwinWhigOhio18391840
    Samson MasonWhigOhio1840
    Jeremiah MorrowWhigOhio18401841
    William C. JohnsonWhigMaryland1841
    Jeremiah MorrowWhigOhio18411842
    Reuben ChapmanDemocraticAlabama1842
    Jeremiah MorrowWhigOhio18421843
    John W. DavisDemocraticIndiana18431845
    John A. McClernandDemocraticIllinois18451847
    Jacob CollamerWhigVermont18471849
    James B. BowlinDemocraticMissouri18491851
    Willard P. HallDemocraticMissouri18511853
    David T. DisneyDemocraticOhio18531855
    Henry BennettOppositionNew York18551857
    Williamson R. W. CobbDemocraticAlabama18571859
    Eli ThayerRepublicanMassachusetts18591861
    John F. PotterRepublicanWisconsin18611863
    George W. JulianRepublicanIndiana18631871
    John H. KetchamRepublicanNew York18711873
    Washington TownsendRepublicanPennsylvania18731875
    Milton SaylerDemocraticOhio18751877
    William R. MorrisonDemocraticIllinois18771879
    George L. ConverseDemocraticOhio18791881
    Thaddeus C. PoundRepublicanWisconsin18811883
    Thomas R. CobbDemocraticIndiana18831887
    William S. HolmanDemocraticIndiana18871889
    Lewis E. PaysonRepublicanIllinois18891891
    Thomas C. McRaeDemocraticArkansas18911895
    John F. LaceyRepublicanIowa18951907
    Franklin W. MondellRepublicanWyoming19071911
    Joseph T. RobinsonDemocraticArkansas19111912
    Scott FerrisDemocraticOklahoma19121919
    Nicholas J. SinnottRepublicanOregon19191928
    Don B. ColtonRepublicanUtah19281931
    John M. EvansDemocraticMontana19311933
    René L. De RouenDemocraticLouisiana19331940
    James W. RobinsonDemocraticUtah19401943
    J. Hardin PetersonDemocraticFlorida19431947
    Richard J. WelchRepublicanCalifornia19471949
    Andrew L. SomersDemocraticNew York1949
    J. Hardin PetersonDemocraticFlorida19491951
    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
    John R. MurdockDemocraticArizona19511953
    Arthur L. MillerRepublicanNebraska19531955
    Clair EngleDemocraticCalifornia19551959
    Wayne N. AspinallDemocraticColorado19591973
    James A. HaleyDemocraticFlorida19731977
    Mo UdallDemocraticArizona19771991
    Committee on Natural Resources
    George MillerDemocraticCalifornia19911995
    Committee on Resources
    Don YoungRepublicanAlaska19952001
    James HansenRepublicanUtah20012003
    Richard PomboRepublicanCalifornia20032007
    Committee on Natural Resources
    Nick RahallDemocraticWest Virginia20072011
    Doc HastingsRepublicanWashington20112015
    Rob BishopRepublicanUtah20152019
    Raúl GrijalvaDemocraticArizona20192023
    Bruce WestermanRepublicanArkansas2023present


    Historical membership rosters

    117th Congress
    Majority Minority

    Resolutions electing members: H.Res. 9 (Chair), H.Res. 10 (Ranking Member), H.Res. 62 (D), H.Res. 63 (R), H.Res. 92 (D), H.Res. 111 (D), H.Res. 475 (D), H.Res. 789 (Removing Gosar), H.Res. 1197 (R), H.Res. 1347 (D)

    Subcommittees
    Subcommittee Chair[10] Ranking Member[11]
    Energy and Mineral Resources Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) Pete Stauber (R-MN)
    Indigenous Peoples of the United States Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-NM) Don Young (R-AK)
    National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Joe Neguse (D-CO) Russ Fulcher (R-ID)
    Oversight and Investigations Katie Porter (D-CA) Blake Moore (R-UT)
    Water, Oceans and Wildlife Jared Huffman (D-CA) Cliff Bentz (R-OR)

    116th Congress
    Majority Minority

    Sources: H.Res. 24 (Chair), H.Res. 25 (Ranking Member), H.Res. 73 (D), H.Res. 74 (R), H.Res. 125 (D), H.Res. 148 (D), H.Res. 793 (D), H.Res. 1072 (R), H.Res. 1135 (D)

    Subcommittees
    Subcommittee Chair Ranking Member
    Energy and Mineral Resources Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) Paul Gosar (R-AZ)
    Indigenous Peoples of the United States Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) Paul Cook (R-CA)
    National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Deb Haaland (D-NM) Don Young (R-AK)
    Oversight and Investigations TJ Cox (D-CA) Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
    Water, Oceans and Wildlife Jared Huffman (D-CA) Tom McClintock (R-CA)

    115th Congress
    Majority[12] Minority[13]

    See also

    Notes
    1. @RachelFrazin (January 31, 2023). "AOC joins the House Natural Resources Committee, and becomes its top Democrat on the Energy and Mineral Resources subcommittee" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
    2. Van Drew left the Democratic Party on December 19, 2019, to join Republicans.

    References
    1. "Incoming chairman pledges new agenda for House environment panel". Associated Press/Lodi News Record. December 8, 2006. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
    2. "Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives - 404". Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-10-05. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
    3. McCarthy, Kevin (3 January 2017). "Text - H.Res.5 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Adopting rules for the One Hundred Fifteenth Congress". congress.gov. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
    4. "Rules for the Committee on Natural Resources" (PDF). Committee on Natural Resources Committee (PDF). January 23, 2013.
    5. Bravender, Robin (January 7, 2015). "Staff shuffles abound across energy, enviro committees". Energy & Environment Daily. E&E Publishing, LLC. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
    6. Taylor, Phil (January 6, 2015). "New chairman overhauls committee staff". Energy & Environment Daily. E&E Publishing, LLC. Retrieved January 14, 2015.
    7. Subcommittee Changes
    8. "Westerman Announces Subcommittee Chairs". Committee on Natural Resources. Retrieved 2023-02-02.
    9. Vu, Nancy (September 14, 2022). "Alaska's new member of Congress, Mary Peltola, is now on the House Natural Resources Committee — thanks to a resignation assist from Lori Trahan". Politico. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
    10. Chair Grijalva Announces Vice Chairs, Subcommittee Chairs for 117th Congress, Looks Forward to Climate and Environmental Justice Collaboration
    11. Westerman Announces Subcommittee Ranking Members
    12. H.Res. 6, H.Res. 51
    13. H.Res. 7, H.Res. 45, H.Res. 52, H.Res. 95
    14. Appointed to committee in 2015, previously served from 2011 to 2013
    15. Sablan is an Independent, but caucuses with the Democrats
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