Dear Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Manchin: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce applauds your collaborative leadership on moving numerous energy-related bills through the committee, and strongly supports the committee’s efforts to enhance energy security, develop the energy workforce of the future, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while strengthening America’s economic competitiveness.
We encourage the committee to favorably report the following three bills to be considered during the business meeting on December 12. Each of these bills would build upon the committee’s bipartisan efforts to develop comprehensive energy legislation focused on the innovations, regulatory streamlining, and workforce development initiatives that would enhance America’s global competitiveness and provide the technological solutions needed to address climate risk. Specifically, the Chamber supports: