Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), in a floor speech today, called for expanding electric and natural gas vehicles legislation slated to come up for a procedural vote during the lame-duck session to encourage the use of ethanol. While he said he would vote for cloture on the bill, he warned that More…
From the annals of “in case you missed it,” here’s some news on the energy front from TWI’s broad lame duck preview story this morning.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) talked last week about moving a renewable More…
Politico had a story this weekend looking ahead to how Latinos, the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the country, will swing politically in 2012. Most of the message was familiar to followers of Latino voting patterns and immigration reform: Advocacy groups and pollsters said Latino voters respond More…
According to supporters of progressive immigration reform, not very well. A Republican-run House would put Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) in charge of the Judiciary Committee and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) atop its immigration subcommittee — meaning the two border security hawks would have a major say in all immigration-related legislation More…
BP is paying Kenneth Feinberg and his law firm, Feinberg Rozen, $850,000 a month to administer the company’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, Bloomberg reports today.
Thus far, BP has paid out more than $2.5 million for the firm’s work. It will continue to pay the same monthly More…
In an interview with The Washington Independent, Sierra Club Deputy National Campaign Director Melinda Pierce said prospects for passage of significant energy legislation in the lame-duck session or next year are unclear.
On the lame-duck session, Pierce said: “It can either all collapse and they’re in and out of here More…
Two groups conceived by Karl Rove and former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie have new independent expenditure ads today in two U.S. Senate races, opposing Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and supporting Florida candidate Marco Rubio (R). The ads appear as campaign finance watchdog organizations wrote a letter to the IRS More…
Three pro-immigration reform Republican representatives from Miami made a somewhat awkward endorsement of Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott Monday, admitting they oppose his harsh anti-immigration policy stances. Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen threw their support behind Scott because of his positions on jobs and lowering taxes. But More…
Sen. George LeMieux (R-Fla.) decried as “wrong” a New Yorker story that says the senator would have supported a cap-and-trade bill, but didn’t want to complicate Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s primary campaign.
Our sister publication The Florida Independent notes that LeMieux pushed back against the New Yorker story More…
Kenneth Feinberg, the independent administrator of BP’s $20 billion oil spill compensation fund, announced the latest change today to the way he distributes money to victims of the spill.
Feinberg said he will no longer determine the validity of claims based on a claimant’s geographic proximity to the oil spill. More…
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