a Western nation to impose a flat blockade on Russian petroleum, its top moneymaker, came a day prior from Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that it "sends a powerful message." Notable Past Legislation Jurisdiction In accordance of Rule XXV of the United States Senate, all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects is referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Coal production, distribution, and utilization; Energy policy; Energy regulation and conservation; Energy related aspects of deepwater ports; Energy research and development; Extraction of minerals from oceans and Outer Continental Shelf lands; Hydroelectric power, irrigation, and reclamation; Mining education and research; Mining, mineral lands, mining claims, and mineral conservation; National parks, recreation areas, wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers, historical sites, military parks and battlefields, and on the public domain, preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest; Naval petroleum reserves in Alaska; Nonmilitary development of nuclear energy; Oil and gas production and distribution; Public lands and forests, including farming and grazing thereon, and mineral extraction therefrom; Solar energy systems; and, Territorial possessions of the United States, including trusteeships. The Committee is also charged to "study and review, on a comprehensive basis, matters relating to energy and resources development, and report thereon from time to time." Members, 118th Congress Chairpersons Committee on Public Lands, 1816–1921 Jeremiah Morrow (R-OH) 1816–1819 Thomas Williams (R-MS) 1819–1820 Jesse Thomas (R-IL) 1820–1823 David Barton (NR-MO) 1823–1831 William R. King (D-AL) 1831–1832 Elias Kane (D-IL) 1832–1833 George Poindexter (W-MS) 1833–1835 Thomas Ewing (W-OH) 1835–1836 Robert Walker (D-MS) 1836–1841 Oliver Hampton Smith (W-IN) 1841–1843 William Woodbridge (W-MI) 1843–1845 Sidney Breese (D-IL) 1845–1849 Alpheus Felch (D-MI) 1849–1853 Solon Borland (D-AR) 1853 Augustus Dodge (D-IA) 1853–1855 Charles E. Stuart (D-MI) 1855–1859 Robert W. Johnson (D-AR) 1859–1861 James Harlan (R-IA) 1861–1865 Samuel Pomeroy (R-KS) 1865–1873 William Sprague (R-RI) 1873–1875 Richard Oglesby (R-IL) 1875–1879 Joseph E. McDonald (D-IN) 1879–1881 Preston Plumb (R-KS) 1881–1891 Joseph N. Dolph (R-OR) 1891–1893 James H. Berry (D-AR) 1893–1895 Fred T. Dubois (R-ID) 1895–1897 Henry C. Hansbrough (R-ND) 1897–1908 Knute Nelson (R-MN) 1908–1912 Reed Smoot (R-UT) 1912–1913 George E. Chamberlain (D-OR) 1913–1915 Henry L. Myers (D-MT) 1915–1919 Reed Smoot (R-UT) 1919–1921 Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, 1921–1947 Reed Smoot (R-UT) 1921–1923 Irvine L. Lenroot (R-WI) 1923–1924 Edwin F. Ladd (R-ND) 1924 Robert Nelson Stanfield (R-OR) 1924–1927 Gerald P. Nye (R-ND) 1927–1933 John B. Kendrick (D-WY) 1933 Robert