Manchin plans energy committee hearing on Texas power crisis

Published February 18, 2021 10:06pm ET



The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is planning to investigate a power outage crisis caused by extremely frigid weather that is gripping Texas and other electric grids in the Midwest and Southeast.

Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democratic chairman of the committee, intends to hold a hearing to examine grid reliability and resilience, his spokesman told the Washington Examiner.

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