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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled Thursday that the Energy and Commerce Committee will look into what transpired in Texas that led to millions of residents losing power and water amid the freezing weather.
Appearing at her weekly news conference, Pelosi also pledged that additional money for the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be included in the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill that the House is expected to move as early as next week.
She also took a veiled swipe at Texas’s Republican leadership, saying the large-scale failure of the state’s power grid “was in many ways predictable” and shared that one of her daughters living in Houston had been affected.
“Everybody has their personal experience,” Pelosi said. “My daughter’s home has no water. Pipes are breaking all over because of the cold. … Again, they can handle it, but a lot of people can’t.”
She said the Energy and Commerce Committee will launch “some form” of an investigation.
“When I say investigation, I mean, will look into it to see how things could have turned out better and will turn out better in the future,” Pelosi said.
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