Bonamici Gains Spot On High-Profile Climate Change Panel

Oregon Rep. Suzanne Bonamici on Thursday was appointed to a high-profile committee focused on combating climate change.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the appointment of Bonamici and seven other Democrats to the new panel on a day that also saw the release of the Green New Deal, a sweeping legislative resolution that calls for moving the economy away from fossil fuels.

The Green New Deal was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. Ocasio-Cortez, who has quickly developed a national following, had unsuccessfully urged Pelosi to give the new House committee broad powers to push her Green New Deal measure through the House.