As the House comes under GOP rule next year, Bracewell’s Joseph Brazauskas told The Wall Street Journal that Republicans are likely to challenge federal agencies they think have overstepped their rule-making authority, and create committees to look for waste, fraud or abuse in clean-energy programs. One big target is likely to be the Energy Department’s Loan Programs Office he said, which finances clean-energy technology projects.
“It slows down the policy-making,” Brazauskas said of congressional oversight. “It’s kind of like walking in the mud.”
House Republicans, who gained a slim majority in the midterm elections, are expected to support measures aimed at boosting domestic oil-and-gas production, and could use control of committees to scrutinize clean-energy programs.
