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        <fullName>Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Establishes an Energy Policy Council within the Executive Office of the President to develop a National Energy Plan and a plan for comprehensive federal departmental reform to eliminate wasteful spending and overlapping programs, including by establishing a consolidated entity to be known as the Department of Energy Policy.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To establish an Energy Policy Council to develop a National Energy Plan and monitor the implementation thereof, and for other purposes.</title>
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        <title>To establish an Energy Policy Council to develop a National Energy Plan and monitor the implementation thereof, and for other purposes.</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.</text>
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