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President Obama Friday tapped Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff, a favorite of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as acting chairman of the five-member Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

President Obama Friday tapped Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff, a favorite of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), as acting chairman of the five-member Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Earlier in the president’s first week in office Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO) and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu were sworn in at the White House as secretaries of the departments of Interior and Energy, respectively.

Despite his efforts to extend an olive branch, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday that Republicans rebuffed his offer to allow votes on four GOP-backed amendments to the anti-energy speculation bill, including a proposal to expand oil and natural gas drilling in the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has indicated he will move forward with an energy bill (HR 6) that includes a slightly larger tax package ($21.8 billion), ignoring threats of a counterattack by Republicans and a possible veto by President Bush.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) offered a motion Friday to go to conference on the energy bill, a Senate committee staffer said. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) objected to the motion due to the number of senators who were traveling.

Sierra Pacific Resources executives are resisting U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) call for a national moratorium on construction of traditional coal-fired power plants, such as the Nevada utility holding company’s proposed Ely Energy Center in eastern Nevada.

Sierra Pacific Resources executives are resisting U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) call for a national moratorium on construction of traditional coal-fired power plants, such as the Nevada utility holding company’s proposed Ely Energy Center in eastern Nevada.

As expected, Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid (D-NV) has named Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) to be chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the 110th Congress, replacing current Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM).

As expected, Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid (D-NV) has named Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) to be chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the 110th Congress, replacing current Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM).