Vote on Nominations of Kate MacGregor to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior and James Danly to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, and Markup of Conservation and Mining Legislation

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
366 Dirksen

04/09/2025 at 10:00AM

Full committee business meeting to consider:

Legislation:

  • S.154, to amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, to reauthorize the Colorado River System conservation pilot program
  • S.362, to allow certain Federal minerals to be mined consistent with the Bull Mountains Mining Plan Modification
  • S.544, to provide for the location of multiple hardrock mining mill sites, to establish the Abandoned Hardrock Mine Fund
  • S.714, to amend the Energy Act of 2020 to include critical materials in the definition of critical mineral

Nominations:

  • Katharine MacGregor, of Florida, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior
  • James Danly, of Tennessee, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy

MacGregor and Danly’s nomination hearing took place on April 2nd. Danly’s response when asked about plans to freeze climate grants and cut climate programs: “I don’t know what the plans are, if there are, in fact, plans.”