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Sen. Manchin picks up natural-gas lobbyist

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on March 29, 2022

As Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) butts heads with the administration over natural gas, he's added an industry lobbyist to his Energy and Natural Resources Committee team.

C.J. Osman comes from the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, where he was vice president for government affairs. He was trade group's main in-house lobbyist. Osman is now a professional staff member and is the committee's Democratic lead on, among other issues, natural gas and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Manchin has recently crossed swords with FERC over natural gas, earlier this month calling for agency chair Richard Glick to "do [his] damn job" by approving natural-gas pipline permits. Manchin has since praised the agency for walking back some of its pipeline rules. Glick, a Biden appointee, has "perhaps the most far-reaching agenda of any leader ever at the commission," according to a recent Politico characterization of his climate-change policies.