The House plans to vote this week on legislation that would revive a State Department energy diplomacy bureau dismantled last year by the Trump administration.
The chamber will take up an amended version of H.R. 7037, the “Developing Overseas Mineral Investments and New Allied Networks for Critical Energies (DOMINANCE) Act,” from Reps. Young Kim (R-Calif.) and Ami Bera (D-Calif.).
The proposal, which cleared committee in recent weeks with unanimous support, would create a Bureau of Energy Security and Diplomacy to focus on energy security, critical minerals and infrastructure.
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A State Department reorganization scrapped the Bureau of Energy Resources and folded its work into an economics and business affairs section at the department.
