SPRATT, GLAUTHIER NAMED BY HASC DEMS TO NNSA GOVERNANCE PANEL

Former South Carolina lawmaker John Spratt (D) and former Deputy Energy Secretary T.J. Glauthier were appointed yesterday to the Congressionally mandated National Nuclear Security Administration governance panel by Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. Spratt represented South Carolina from 1983 to 2011, serving as the chairman of the House Budget Committee, the second-highest Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, and a member of the panel’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee. Glauthier was the Deputy Energy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer from 1999 to 2001, when the NNSA was created. He also served as the Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy and Science from 1993 to 1998. He served on the Obama Administration’s transition team in 2008 and 2009, and currently serves on the boards of EnerNOC, Inc., and Union Drilling, Inc. as well as the boards of the National Academy of Sciences (Oversight Board for the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Research Council), Stanford’s Precourt Energy Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “Together, former Congressman Spratt and former Deputy Secretary of Energy Glauthier will contribute decades of expertise to the important task of improving management and oversight of nuclear weapons and non-proliferation programs, including heath safety and security,” Smith said in a statement.