Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, has scheduled the first hearings for the climate change legislation that had been stalled on Capitol Hill.
Boxer (D-CA) said they will begin Oct. 27 and that President Obama’s Cabinet secretaries will testify during three days of hearings.
She said her aim is to pass “strong clean energy jobs bill” and send it to the full Senate “as soon as possible,” adding that her staff has sent a draft of the bill to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Secs. Steven Chu (Energy), Ken Salazar (Interior), Ray LaHood (Transportation) will be there Oct. 27, along with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
“I am pleased to report we are continuing to expand support for our bill. Momentum for this effort is growing every day, and we are broadening and deepening our coalition with each step in the process,” Boxer said.
