, a spokesman for Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the panel does not have any immediate plans to hold a hearing on the bill.
“We hear a lot from our colleagues on the left only about interstate transmission for our electric grid,” Kelly said in an email. “However, transmission is not a substitute for generation. Our hearings will continue to focus on solutions the American people need to be protected from the Biden administration's continued attacks on 24/7 dispatchable generation and a reliable energy grid.
Barrasso added in a brief interview before the meeting that he was “optimistic” about the negotiations, giving a thumbs up as he boarded the Senate subway., one of the most vocal climate advocates in the Senate, suggested he would only vote for a permitting package that includes transmission language. “We have to do something for transmission; we have to make it easier to build clean energy,” Schatz told The Climate 202.