SENATE ENERGY PANEL TO VOTE ON DOE NOMINEES JAN. 16

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is set to vote again on the nomination of Elizabeth Robinson to serve as the new Under Secretary of Energy for Management and Performance, as well as on a host of other DOE nominees, at a business meeting scheduled for Jan. 16. Other DOE nominees set to be voted on at the meeting include Franklin Orr to serve as Under Secretary for Science; Steven Croley to serve as General Counsel; Christopher Smith to serve as Assistant Energy Secretary for Fossil Energy; Jonathan Elkind to serve as Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs; Marc Kastner to serve as Director of the Office of Science; and Ellen Williams to serve as Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

 

The set of DOE nominees were renominated by the Obama Administration earlier this month after the Senate formally returned the nominations to the President because they were caught up in a dispute between Democrats and Republicans over new filibuster rules in the Senate and were not confirmed before the end of 2013. Once the DOE nominees are reported out of the Senate energy panel, it remains to be seen when they will be considered by the full Senate. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee business meeting is scheduled to be held at 9:30 a.m. in Room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.