"A growing number of House Democrats are backing the idea to create a special committee to fight climate change next year, but it likely won’t have the authority to pass any bills.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told lawmakers Wednesday that the panel, championed by Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), won’t have any legislative jurisdiction.

In the meeting, meant to assuage concerns of incoming committee chairmen that the new climate panel might encroach on their authority, Pelosi (D-Calif.) promised that the select committee wouldn’t have the authority to pass its own bills, according to Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who attended the meeting."

Timothy Cama and Miranda Green report for The Hill December 12, 2018. [2]

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