Energy Conference Opens; Domenici Rejects Separate Electricity Bill
As congressional negotiators launched a conference to work out differences on energy legislation, the lead Senate conferee said he opposed splitting off electricity provisions and passing them separately.
At the conference's opening session on Sept. 5, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) said "I do believe that we should reach agreement on a comprehensive energy bill. And I do not support efforts to break it apart in a piecemeal fashion. We will look at the entire bill, not pieces of it."