Podesta, a White House adviser on green energy overseeing the implementation of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, a massive climate spending law, is set to succeed John Kerry as special climate envoy. But the appointment "appears to be a blatant attempt to sidestep congressional oversight and install Mr. Podesta in a position that under federal law requires the advice and consent of the United States Senate," House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), ranking member for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote in a letter Tuesday evening to the president.