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Sen. Mike Lee will head the Senate committee overseeing energy resources, public lands, water and issues related to Native Americans when Republicans take majority control of the body next year, he announced Tuesday morning. The senator said he was “humbled and honored” to have been selected by his Republican colleagues to head the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in a post to X .
“Time to get to work and unleash American energy,” he wrote. Humbled and honored to take the gavel as the next Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Time to get to work and unleash American energy.
pic.twitter.com/3IGxRqCTfO The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, of which Lee is currently a member, oversees legislation related to public lands, renewable energy, oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy, as well as their regulation.
Lee will replace Sen. Joe Manchin — a previously Democratic senator from West Virginia who announced this year he was leaving the party to become independent — as the committee’s chair. This story is breaking and will be updated.
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