How the House beat a bid to create a single energy committee
Three years ago, when Jimmy Carter presented to Congress an energy program that he termed "the moral equivalent of war," he began learning the consequences of one odd fact: the House of Representatives has no energy committee. Rather it has 83 committees and subcommittees that claim jurisdiction over parts of energy policy. One year ago, when Congress was still struggling to get some kind of energy bill passed, two rival House committees produced two rival plans. Nobody could work out a compromise.
Among the House's 34 committees, there is a special...
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