1. The Energy and Natural Resources Committee By: Hannah Markham

2. History The Louisiana Purchase Opening of the west Early need for Congressional oversight of America’s Natural Resources Conservation Era The Arab Oil Embargo

3. How Members Are Determined Each party chooses members at their party caucuses

4. Duties Energy resource development Regulation, conservation, and appliance standard of resources Nuclear energy Renewable resources

5. Legislation Boxer Elder Utah Land Conveyance Act Blue Ridge Parkway and Town of Blowing Rock Land Exchange Act Heart Mountain Relocation Center Study Act

6. Chairman Jeff Bingaman Born October 3, 1943 Senior US senator from New Mexico Has been in the Senate since 1983 He is a member of the Democratic Party Attorney General of New Mexico from 1978 until his election into the Senate in 1982

7. Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski Born May 22, 1957 Senior U.S. Senator from Alaska Member of the Republican Party First appointed to Senate by her father, Frank Murkowski, in 2002 Only woman ever elected to Congress from Alaska

8. Bibliography www.senate.gov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bingaman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Murkowski http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery