Republicans and Democrats filled out assignments for the Senate committees on Energy and Natural Resources and for Environment and Public Works.
New GOP senators joining the energy committee, which oversees the Energy and Interior departments, include Cory Gardner of Colorado, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia and Steve Daines of Montana. All four are currently House members who won their respective races last month.
Democrats also will be adding new faces to the committee: Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and Angus King, a Maine independent who caucuses with Democrats. Departing the panel are Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who lost her election to Cassidy, Mark Udall of Colorado, who lost to Gardner, and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, who is retiring. Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin are also leaving the committee for other posts.
On the environment panel, which has jurisdiction over the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, new Republican members include Capito, Mike Rounds of South Dakota and Dan Sullivan of Alaska. Rounds, a former South Dakota governor, and Sullivan, Alaska’s lieutenant governor, won their midterm contests in November.
Democrats won’t add any new members to the committee, though the party will lose Tom Udall of New Mexico and Cory Booker of New Jersey to other panels.
