Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Committee Contact Information
1036 Longworth House Office Building
Phone (202) 225-3481
Membership
Democrats
- Rep. Chellie Pingree, Ranking Member
- Rep. Betty McCollum (MN-04)
- Rep. Derek Kilmer (WA-06)
- Rep. Josh Harder (CA-09)
Republicans
- Rep. Mike Simpson, Chair
- Rep. Mark Amodei
- Rep. Guy Reschenthaler
- Rep. Michael Cloud
- Rep. Ryan Zinke
- Rep. Jake Ellzey
- Rep. Chuck Edwards
Jurisdiction
- Department of the Interior (except Bureau of Reclamation and Central Utah Project)
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Related Agencies
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (HHS)
- Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children
- Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
- Commission of Fine Arts
- Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality
- Forest Service (USDA)
- Indian Health Service (HHS)
- Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs
- National Capital Planning Commission
- National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities (except Institute of Museum and Library Services)
- National Gallery of Art
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Superfund-related activities) (HHS)
- Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation
- Presidio Trust
- Smithsonian Institution
- Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment (USDA)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- United States Semiquincentennial Commission
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- World War I Centennial Commission
Recent Activity
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Today, Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, alongside several education, environmental, labor, and public health advocates, experts, and community leaders, discussed the dire consequences of the House Republican majority’s dangerous spending cuts and the harmful and discriminatory policy riders throughout all 12 fiscal year 2025 funding bills.
Today, House Appropriations Committee Democrats united against Republicans’ harmful 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill. The legislation takes an aggressive anti-environment, pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and increase costs. The bill also slashes funding for national parks and arts programs. Democrats unanimously rejected the legislation during today’s full committee markup.
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies bill.
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), Ranking Member of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2025 bill:
WASHINGTON — During today’s House Appropriations subcommittee markup of the 2025 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies funding bill, House Democrats highlighted how the bill takes an aggressive anti-environment pro-pollution stance with crippling cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and policy provisions that will endanger public health, strain the economy, and increase costs. The bill also slashes funding for National Parks and arts programs.