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The Energy and Natural Resources Committee

The Energy and Natural Resources Committee. By: Hannah Markham. History. The Louisiana Purchase Opening of the west Early need for Congressional oversight of America’s Natural Resources Conservation Era The Arab Oil Embargo. How Members Are Determined.

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The Energy and Natural Resources Committee

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  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

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