Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is planning to work with President Joe Biden on additional energy-permitting reform after Congress turns the page on the debt limit ordeal.

Permitting reform proved to be a major sticking point during deliberations. Although some reform provisions wound up in the final debt ceiling agreement, McCarthy contends that there’s more to do.

“We will continue working with [the White House] and with Democrats across the way because we need energy — all forms of energy, especially for our grid to double in the next future. And so we made a commitment that we’re not stopping now. And that would also deal with transmission. It would deal with pipelines and others,” he said.

Top negotiator Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) told the Washington Examiner there were some issues on permitting reform that lawmakers “didn’t have mature enough text on or things weren’t ripe enough” yet for the debt limit framework.

Negotiators ticked through some of the key points of their plans for permitting reform featured in the debt limit framework during a press conference Sunday.

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