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Jim -----Original Message----- From: Rodriquez, Andy Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 11:03 AM To: Steffes, James D. Subject: RE: MTG with ELCON and PJM Jim, You saw this already in yesterday's Restructuring Today, right? I think this doesn't impact our desires to gain support, but wanted to make sure this wasn't news to anybody else. If you want, I will forward to others, unless it is already common knowledge. BINGAMAN HALTS ENERGY LEGISLATION FOR NOW But Strange Wording Leads to Questions About Senate Plan As Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, tells it, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle urged him to suspend Energy & Natural Resources Committee's effort to mark up "of energy legislation for this session of Congress." "Instead, the chairman will propose comprehensive and balanced energy legislation that can be added by the majority leader to the Senate calendar for potential action prior to adjournment." Before the Senate adjourns in the next few weeks or at the end of the year? We got the news at 6:03 pm yesterday and were unable to get a clarification. For Bingaman it's "increasingly clear to the majority leader and to me that much of what we are doing in our committee is starting to encroach on the jurisdictions of many other committees... "With the few weeks remaining in this session, it is now obvious to all how difficult it is going to be for these various committees to finish their work on energy-related provisions. "Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the Senate's leadership sincerely wants to avoid quarrelsome, divisive votes in committee. "At a time when Americans all over the world are pulling together with a sense of oneness and purpose, Congress has an obligation at the moment to avoid those contentious issues that divide, rather than unite, us." Bingaman will build consensus with members of his committee with other committee chairs and with other senators as he readies a proposal to present to the majority leader. The message doesn't seem to rule out getting a package to the majority leader that could be put into a conference report at some opportune time, thus avoiding committee arguments over drilling versus comprehensive electricity reform. We suspect because of Bingaman's views at the Enron dinner last week that he's thinking of Senate action next year. Joe Barton, R-Tex, is going ahead today with hearings on RTOs, reliability and the need for comprehensive electricity legislation. Andy Rodriquez Regulatory Affairs - Enron Corp. andy.rodriquez@enron.com 713-345-3771 -----Original Message----- From: Steffes, James D. Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 7:43 AM To: Yeung, Charles; Bestard, Jose; Walton, Steve; Perrino, Dave; Shelk, John; Novosel, Sarah; Rodriquez, Andy; Shortridge, Pat; Nicolay, Christi L. Cc: Robertson, Linda; Shapiro, Richard Subject: MTG with ELCON and PJM Today after the Hearing I attended lunch with John Anderson and Phil Harris. One of the primary points of discussion involved what to do to respond to the NERC legislative efforts? Basically we agreed that a straightforward delegation of authority over reliability to FERC made sense for all of the groups. Agreeing to that, the idea is to review the Bingaman language and see if our groups could agree to that language. I think that internally Enron is already there??? John Shelk, if you could pls send out the language to everyone on this e-mail to get agreement that would be very helpful. I'll let you know how we next proceed. If anyone has any problems, please let me know. Thanks.
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