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REPUBLICAN MEMBERS:

Shuster, Bud, PA--Chairman

Young, Donald (R-AK)
Clinger Jr., William, PA
Petri, Thomas E., WI
Boehlert, Sherwood, NY
Bateman, Herbert H., VA
Emerson, Bill, MO
Coble, Howard, NC
Duncan Jr., John J., TN
Molinari, Susan, NY
Zeliff Jr., William, NH
Ewing, Thomas, IL
Gilchrest, Wayne T., MD
Hutchinson, Tim, AR
Baker, Bill, CA
Kim, Jay C., CA
Horn, Steve, CA
Franks, Bob, NJ
Blute, Peter I., MA
Mica, John L., FL
Quinn, Jack, NY
Fowler, Tillie, FL
Ehlers, Vern, MI
Bachus, Spencer, AL
Weller, Gerald, IL
Wamp, Zach, TN
Latham, Tom, IA
LaTourette, Steven, OH
Seastrand, Andrea, CA
Tate, Randy, WA
Kelly, Sue, NY
LaHood, Ray, IL
Martini, Bill, NJ

DEMOCRAT MEMBERS:

Mineta, Norman Y., CA--Ranking minority member

Oberstar, James L., MN
Rahall II, Nick Joe, WV
Borski, Robert A., PA
Lipinski, William O., IL
Wise Jr., Robert E., WV
Traficant Jr., James, OH
DeFazio, Peter A., OR
Hayes, James A., LA
Clement, Robert, TN
Costello, Jerry F., IL
Parker, Mike, MS
Laughlin, Gregory H., TX
Geren, Peter, TX
Cramer, Bud, AL
Collins, Barbara-Rose, MI
Nadler, Jerrold, NY
Danner, Pat, MO
Menendez, Robert, NJ
Clyburn, James E., SC
Brown, Corrine, FL
Deal, Nathan, GA
Barcia, James A., MI
Filner, Bob, CA
Tucker III, Walter R., CA
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, TX
Brewster, Billy Kent, OK
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, DC

DESCRIPTION

The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure deals with:

1. Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy.
2. Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters.
3. Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors.
4. Inland waterways.
5. Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels.
6. Navigation and the laws relating thereto, including pilotage.
7. Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats.
8. Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at sea.
9. Measures relating to the Capitol Building and the Senate and House office buildings.
10. Measures relating to the construction or maintenance of roads and post roads, other than appropriations therefor; but it shall not be in order for any bill providing general legislation in relation to roads to contain any provision for any specific road, nor for any bill in relation to a specific road to embrace a provision in relation to any other specific road.
11. Measures relating to the construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of the buildings and grounds of the Botanic Gardens, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.
12. Measures relating to merchant marine, except for national security aspects of merchant marine.
13. Measures relating to the purchase of sites and construction of post offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the District of Columbia.
14. Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including inland, coastal, and ocean waters.
15. Marine affairs (including coastal zone management) as they relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.
16. Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the United States generally.
17. Public works for the benefit of navigation, including bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams).
18. Related transportation regulatory agencies.
19. Roads and the safety thereof.
20. Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related thereto).
21. Water power.

SUBCOMMITTEES

AVIATION
COAST GUARD AND MARITIME TRANSPORTATION
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT
RAILROADS
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT