Leaders of the House Appropriations Committee announced subcommittee rosters for the 119th Congress this week, revealing more continuity than change on subcommittees affecting the Department of Energy.
There are some additions and departures, but leadership remains the same for the subcommittee that writes the first draft of DOE’s annual spending bill, according to Wednesday press releases from Reps. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), respectively the chair and ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee.
On the energy and water appropriations subcommittee, which controls the budget for the entire Department of Energy, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), whose district abuts Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 National Security Complex, will remain the chair, according to Cole’s press release.
Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas), who is new to the subcommittee, will be the energy and water vice chair. Reps. Scott Franklin (R-Fla.) and Celeste Maloy (R-Utah) are also new to the subcommittee.
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), whose district abuts the Hanford plant, will remain on the energy and water subcommittee.
Leaving energy and water are Former Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), who is no longer in Congress, and Reps. Julia Letlow (R-La.) and Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), who remain in the Congress but will no longer serve on the subcommittee.
Meanwhile, for the Democrats, Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.) will stay on the House appropriations energy and water subcommittee, according to a proposed roster published Wednesday by DeLauro, the ranking appropriations Democrat.
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) would remain the ranking member of the on the energy and water subcommittee.
New to energy and water for Democrats are Reps. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Mike Levin (D-Calif.), whose district is near the shuttered San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, and Frank Mrvan (D-Ind.).
Reps. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) will no longer be on the subcommittee, and ex-Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.), formerly on the subcommittee, is no longer a member of Congress.
Democrat subcommittee members “must be formally approved by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee and the House Democratic Caucus,” DeLauro said in the release.
