Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin will have some direct input when it comes to the efforts of Democrats in the House to approve climate change legislation.
He’s been named by Republican leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to sit on the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. His appointment was one of only a few changes made by the GOP leaders on the full committee.
Ranking member Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said most of the returning members from the last Congress will continue to sit on the committee and subcommittees.
Joining Rep. Mullin on the Environment and Climate Change subcommittee will be Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington state. She is an 8-term lawmaker who earlier had led the House Republican caucus and fought environmentalists over management of salmon and steelheard fisheries in Northwestern waterways.
Rep. Mullin is known as a regular critic of the Environmental Protection Agency and offered amendments last year to the fiscal 2019 Interior-EPA spending bill. He said he did it to curb the EPA’s ability to regulate emissions and bar it from studying the social costs of carbon.
House Republicans had only one new slot to fill on the overall committee, naming Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Mont.) earlier this week. He did not land on either the energy or environment panels.
The full GOP rosters are below:
Energy Subcommittee
- Fred Upton of Michigan — ranking member.
- Bob Latta of Ohio.
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington.
- Pete Olson of Texas.
- David McKinley of West Virginia.
- Adam Kinzinger of Illinois.
- Morgan Griffith of Virginia.
- Bill Johnson of Ohio.
- Larry Bucshon of Indiana.
- Bill Flores of Texas.
- Richard Hudson of North Carolina.
- Tim Walberg of Michigan.
- Jeff Duncan of South Carolina.
Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee
- John Shimkus of Illinois — ranking member.
- Rodgers.
- McKinley.
- Johnson.
- Billy Long of Missouri.
- Flores.
- Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma.
- Buddy Carter of Georgia.
- Duncan.