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House adopts HR4, creates Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee and reconfigures standing committees
Summary
The House approved House Resolution 4 to split the existing environment/energy jurisdiction into two committees, adjust committee sizes across standing committees and move information-technology jurisdiction to a new panel. The change passed by voice vote after brief questions about membership counts and overlapping jurisdiction.
The House of Representatives adopted House Resolution 4 (HR 4) to amend House Rule 25 and reorganize several standing committees, including creating a new Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure and a separate Committee on Environment.
HR 4 changes committee membership totals and jurisdictions: it creates a Committee on Energy and Digital Infrastructure (9 members) with jurisdiction over energy, utilities, telecommunications, broadband, information technology and cybersecurity; it establishes a Committee on Environment (11 members) to consider conservation, climate mitigation, land resources, air and water, fish and wildlife, solid waste, and related policies; and it reduces membership counts on several existing committees (for example, Appropriations from 12 to 11 members and Ways and Means from 12 to 11). The resolution…
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