'Partisan acrimony' stalling energy policy
U.S. News and World Report
Jul. 20, 2010
"My colleague David W. Conover at the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center was the Republican staff director at the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, or EPW, from 1999 to 2003. His experience on the committee is a revealing window into the shifting environmental politics of the U.S. Congress and the country...
Conover’s experience wasn't so long ago, but it recalled a more productive moment in the committee's history. He worked in a Democratic Senate, a Republican Senate, and in a 50-50 Senate. Conover recalls his Democratic committee counterpart, Thomas Sliter, telling him that EPW had its own culture and traditions that defied some of the rabidly partisan politics of the larger Congress."
