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Senator Wyden serves on six committees and chairs two subcommittees.

Budget Committee
Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
Chairman, Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space
Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Chairman, Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
Environment and Public Works Committee
Special Committee on Aging
Select Committee on Intelligence
Budget Committee

The Senate Budget Committee has jurisdiction over all budget resolutions introduced in Congress (including the President's annual budget.) The committee is also responsible for studying the budgetary effects of existing and proposed legislation and reporting the results of such studies to the Senate, and reviewing on a continuing basis, the conduct of the Congressional Budget Office in the performance of its functions and duties.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

The Senate Commerce Committee is one of the busiest and most powerful committees in the Senate. It has jurisdiction over all matters relating to interstate commerce, science and technology, oceans policy, transportation, communications, and consumer affairs. Bills related to marine and ocean navigation; highway safety; the Coast Guard; coastal zone management; marine fisheries; nonmilitary aeronautical and space sciences; oceans, weather, and atmospheric activities; regulation of consumer products and services regulation of interstate common carriers, including railroads, buses, trucks, vessels, pipelines, and civil aviation; science, engineering, and technology research and development and policy; sports; standards and measurement; and transportation are all referred to this committee.

Aviation Subcommittee
Communications Subcommittee
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Subcommittee
Science, Technology and Space, Chairman

Energy and Natural Resources Committee

The Senate Energy Committee's jurisdiction includes oversight and legislative responsibilities for: National Energy Policy, including international energy affairs and emergency preparedness; strategic petroleum reserves; Outer Continental Shelf leasing; nuclear waste policy; privatization of federal assets; territorial affairs, including Freely Associated States; regulation of Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and other oil or gas pipeline transportation systems within Alaska; National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska; Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act; Antarctica Arctic research and energy development; and Native Hawaiian matters.

Energy Research, Development, Production & Regulation
Forests and Public Land Management Subcommittee, Chairman
Water and Power Subcommittee

Environment and Public Works Committee

The Senate Environment Committee's jurisdiction includes oversight of new Federal building construction, additions to the U.S. Capitol building and grounds, and the White House and its grounds, to the responsibility for creating new laws to achieve air and water pollution control, rural and community economic development, and relief from natural disasters. The passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, brought the committee recognition as the Senate's forum for protection of the environment. In 1977, the committee was assigned the jurisdiction over endangered species, fish and wildlife refuges and programs, and the regulation of nonmilitary nuclear power. More recent committee activities include the protection of barrier islands and ground water resources, investigation of the environmental effects of bioengineering, review of new technologies and scientific standards in achieving infrastructural growth and natural habitat renewal, and oversight of the Superfund program, solid waste and recycled materials, stratospheric ozone depletion, global climate change, private property rights, and Federal regulatory reform.

Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee
Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment
Transportation and Infrastructure

Special Committee on Aging The Senate Special Committee on Aging was first established in 1961 as a temporary committee. It was granted permanent status on February 1, 1977. While special committees have no legislative authority, they can study issues, conduct oversight of programs, and investigate reports of fraud and waste. Throughout its existence, the Special Committee on Aging has served as a focal point in the Senate for discussion and debate on matters relating to older Americans. Often, the Committee will submit its findings and recommendations for legislation to the Senate. The Committee has regularly reviewed pension coverage and employment opportunities for older Americans. It has conducted oversight of the administration of major programs like Social Security and Medicare. Finally, it has crusaded against frauds targeting the elderly and Federal programs on which the elderly depend.

Select Committee on Intelligence

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is charged with overseeing and making continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government. The committee submits to the Senate appropriate legislation regarding intelligence, and ensures that government agencies provide informed intelligence in order to assist the legislative and executive branches in making informed decisions regarding national security. The committee also oversees all United States intelligence activities to be certain that they conform with the laws and Constitution of the United States.