Senate Environment and Public Works Committee:
Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee

The Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee has jurisdiction over Army Corps of Engineers water projects, highways, public transit, and public buildings.  

Senator Christopher Bond (R-MO) is the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, and the Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Sen. Bond was Missouri's Governor from 1972-76, and again from 1980-84. In the 106th Congress he worked to prevent the EPA from withholding highway funding from urban areas that don't meet basic, healthy, clean air standards, thereby eliminating an incentive to cities to promote mass transit and protect their citizen's health. Sen. Bond has a 2003 LCV score of 0%.

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is the Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and the Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure. He also serves as the Senate Minority Leader, the highest-ranking member of the Democratic Party's Senate leadership team. Sen. Reid represented Nevada in the House from 1982 until he was elected to the United States Senate in 1986. In 2001 he co-sponsored a brownfields bill that more than doubled the federal funding level for cleaning up contaminated former industrial sites. He has a 2004 LCV score of 50%.