Lawmakers are preparing for a significant leadership shakeup atop the House’s most important energy and environment committees in the next Congress, as Republicans look to continue their “all-of-the-above” energy agenda with unified GOP control of Washington.
The to-be-decided Republican chairs will play a critical role in shaping the agenda of the new Congress, including a potential budget reconciliation bill that will allow the party to pass tax and spending priorities through both chambers by simple majority.
Republicans have already signaled the process could include repealing some or all the hard-fought climate and clean energy wins included in the Inflation Reduction Act.
Democratic committee and subcommittee ranking members, for their part, are poised to constitute the main resistance against those repeal efforts.
