WASHINGTON, July 7 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a letter to White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought calling on him to rescind OMB's proposed rule governing all federal grants and financial assistance.
In the letter, the top Democratic energy appropriators underscore how OMB's proposed rule would politicize grants and loans made by the Department of Energy (DOE) and enable political appointees to ter...