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Rename and refocus the Energy Department

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 12, p. 366. Written by Bernard L. McNamee.

Rename and refocus the Energy Department

The document says “shouldWho acts: Congress, PresidentHow: legislationp. 366 in the PDF
What the document says

“The Department of Energy should be renamed and refocused as the Department of Energy Security and Advanced Science (DESAS).”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 366

The chapter proposes refocusing the department on five existing core missions, and separately that government should not pick winners and losers among energy resources or commercial technologies, which it says can crowd out innovation, devolve into cronyism and raise prices.

What the document actually says

“The Department of Energy should be renamed and refocused as the Department of Energy Security and Advanced Science (DESAS).”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 366
That sentence, in plain words

The Energy Department should get a new name. It should also get a narrower job.

What this is about

This department handles energy and science. The book says it does too much else. It wants a new name and a smaller job.

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