{"id":248321,"date":"2026-07-21T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248321\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:42:05","slug":"pennsylvania-republican-eyes-energy-and-natural-resources-gavel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248321\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republican eyes Energy and Natural Resources gavel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Republican Sen. David McCormick is in line to take the gavel of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee next Congress, a remarkable rise for the freshman who has distinguished himself as a leading booster of natural gas and U.S. artificial intelligence dominance.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick is interested in leading Republicans on the committee, a person familiar with his plans told POLITICO, if the spot opens as expected. The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has sparked a domino effect that is likely to put the Pennsylvanian in the driver\u2019s seat for the energy role.<\/p>\n<p>Current Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee (R-Utah) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4647152\/mike-lee-judiciary-chair-senate-lindsey-graham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/a> last week it would be \u201chard to turn down\u201d a chance to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee should Republicans keep the majority next year. Current Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is term-limited.<\/p>\n<p>There are Republicans with more seniority than McCormick on Energy and Natural Resources, but they are not eligible or unlikely to pursue the top spot for various reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republican Sen. David McCormick is in line to take the gavel of the Energy and Natural Resources&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-248321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}