Senate Environment and Public Works Committee:
Superfund and Waste Management Subcommittee

The Superfund and Waste Management Subcommittee oversees Superfund, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Senator John Thune (R-SD), currently in his first term in the Senate, is chairman of the Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management.  Before his election to the Senate in 2004, Thune served six years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he had a strongly conservative record.  In his final term, for example, he voted in favor of timber sale subsidies, nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, and certain Superfund exemptions.  In the 107th Congress, his last term in the House, Thune earned an LCV score of 9%.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management. She served in the House for ten years before being elected California? junior Senator in 1992. Sen.. Boxer has been one of the environment? strongest advocates in the U.S. Senate, including as a leader in the fight to phase out use of the toxin MTBE, a gasoline additive and suspected carcinogen. Most recently, it was her amendment that defeated drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Additionally, Sen. Boxer has written legislation that would require industry to pay for cleaning up Superfund sites by reinstating a fee that expired in 1995.  She also introduced the California Wild Heritage Act of 2002, which would designate 2.5 million acres as wilderness in California. Sen. Boxer has a 2003 LCV score of 89%.