{"id":47935,"date":"2021-03-17T18:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sen-bennet-to-lead-two-subcommittees\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T00:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:25:41","slug":"sen-bennet-to-lead-two-subcommittees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/sen-bennet-to-lead-two-subcommittees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Bennet to lead two subcommittees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5fc98407-e037-4525-abc9-b815fa472f3b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1900\" alt=\"Bennet\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Bennet<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., announced Monday that he will be chairman of two subcommittees this congressional term.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet will be chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry and Natural Resources and the Senate Finance Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure. He was the ranking member of both subcommittees last congressional term.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., also serves as chairman of two subcommittees \u2013 the Senate Commerce Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Science and Space and the Senate HELP Committee Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet\u2019s subcommittee on conservation examines legislation related to rural development, forestry, climate change and conservation efforts. It was recently modified to include the word \u201cclimate\u201d in its name, indicating the committee\u2019s added focus on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Bennet plans to foster bipartisan discussions as chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom healthy soils to the forests that sustain our water supply, conservation and forestry are central to our economy in Colorado,\u201d he said in a news release. \u201cClimate change threatens our way of life in the West, and I\u2019m glad that we\u2019ve expanded the scope of the conservation and forestry subcommittee to focus in a bipartisan manner on locally led efforts to build climate resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennet has focused on bipartisan conversations around climate change for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, he convened a roundtable of Coloradans to help inform his environmental policy work. The group consists of people across the political spectrum, and it is focused on discussing the most pressing environmental issues facing their communities in a bipartisan way.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the group came up with a final framework of priorities for policy related to the climate.<\/p>\n<p>As chairman of the subcommittee on energy and infrastructure, Bennet plans to improve U.S. energy tax policy and find better ways to finance U.S. infrastructure. He said he will include a climate-centered outlook in his work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the energy and infrastructure subcommittee, I\u2019ll work to promote a forward-looking energy policy that addresses climate change while working to build consensus to finance our nation\u2019s infrastructure needs,\u201d Bennet said in a statement. \u201cColorado has been leading the way toward building a resilient, 21st-century clean energy economy, and I look forward to bringing our state\u2019s experience to my committee work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">Grace George is an intern for The Durango Herald and The Journal in Cortez and a student at American University in Washington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Democrat previously was ranking member of both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25,1566],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-u-s-sen-michael-bennet","tag-u-s-senate"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47935"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}