text_combined: pacific nw lawmakers gear oppose ferc rto mandate note highlighted sentence perhaps defazio right wrong reasons granted know rto efforts marked today might want hug course budgetary sense favorite regulatory person today pacific nw lawmakers gear oppose ferc rto mandate bryan lee 10 04 2001 dow jones energy service copyright c 2001 dow jones company inc dow jones newswires washington dow jones members pacific northwest congressional delegation gearing opposition u federal energy regulatory commission mandate consolidation power grid assets region house northwest energy caucus held informal hearing late wednesday air concerns utilities industrial consumers region ferc effort establish regional transmission organization rto lawmakers plan follow hearing letter ferc voicing concerns largely revolve around skepticism rto result cost savings region consumers ferc force rto region without first conducting cost benefit analysis said rep peter defazio ore spearheading effort speaking reporters prior wednesday hearing defazio complained bunch bureaucrats ferc embracing national power grid agenda enron corp ene without assessing costs regardless local reliability defazio complaints echoed testimony presented wednesday hearing