A prominent GOP House Energy and Commerce aide said committee members
are looking to work with the Senate on sweeping energy-efficiency
legislation next Congress.
Patrick Currier, counsel with the committee’s Energy and Power
subcommittee, said lawmakers will likely start by using a bill
co-sponsored by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
as the template.
“We’re going to look to the Senate. We understand that S. 1000, the
Shaheen-Portman bill, is going to be one of the priorities in the Senate
next year. So we’d like to start working with them earlier than later
to see where we can find that common ground,” Currier said at a Thursday
event hosted by The Hill.
Read more on The Hill's E2 Wire blog.
