[Shadow_Group] Senate Panel OKs Bush's Pick for Energy Job

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37783-2005Jan26?

Senate Panel OKs Bush's Pick for Energy Job 


Reuters
Wednesday, January 26, 2005; 9:48 AM 



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sam Bodman, President Bush's pick to be the 
next U.S. energy secretary, was approved on Wednesday by the Senate 
Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

His nomination now goes to the full Senate for final approval, which 
is expected.

Bodman will leave his current post as U.S. deputy treasury secretary 
to replace outgoing Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, a former U.S. 
senator from Michigan.

Bodman, age 66, said at his confirmation hearing last week that he 
supports opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The Republican-controlled Congress is expected to have enough votes 
to later this year give oil companies access to the Alaskan refuge.

Bodman said he generally supports a "balanced" approach in opening 
more federal lands to drilling that weighs environmental protection 
against the nation's growing need for energy.

Bodman said passing comprehensive energy legislation is among the 
most important matters before Congress this year, calling a stable 
supply of energy "the lifeblood" of the U.S. economy.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Monday that clearing an 
energy bill is one of the top ten legislative priorities for 
Republicans.

Bodman was a chemical engineering professor and chairman of Cabot 
Corp., a specialty chemicals company from 1987 through 2001.

Bodman was confirmed twice before for senior jobs at the Commerce and 
Treasury departments during the past four years.

The Energy Department, with a $23 billion budget, runs a network of 
nuclear weapons research laboratories and has over 100,000 employees 
and contractors. 

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