(WASHINGTON, DC) -- Incoming Senate Energy and Natural
Resources ranking member Maria Cantwell has picked Angela Becker-Dippmann, a
former ENR and Cantwell aide, as Democratic staff director for the next
Congress. Becker-Dippmann is currently a senior policy advisor at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory's Energy and Environment Directorate, where she
has been since 2011. Becker-Dippmann was an executive vice president at McBee
Strategic Consulting from 2008 until joining PNNL, and before that spent eight
years in the Senate, including stints as a staffer under former ENR Chairman
Jeff Bingaman and as policy director to Cantwell, where she worked on the
Energy Policy Act of 2005.