Markey, D-Massachusetts, is Chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

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Finger presented the assessment to a joint hearing of the House Intelligence Committee and the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

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McClendon and other panelists at the hearing, convened by the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, want Congress to know that natural gas can have a more prominent role in America's energy future.

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The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, established this year, has been drumming up support for the administration and Congress to act quickly on climate change, but the committee has no authority to draft legislation.

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In a clear sign of the regressive policies to be pursued by our soon to arrive GOP controlled Congress, the Republican leadership of tomorrow has announced that the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is to be disbanded.

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Although his office has asserted that the listing will still allow energy production in Alaska, members of Congress -- including Rep. Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming -- have expressed strong objections to any such notion.

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