At the outset of the lame-duck session in Congress, The Washington Independent writers previewed what would happen. They predicted that a temporary extension of the tax cuts would pass, no significant environmental legislation would pass,
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has decided to delay a procedural vote on a bill to encourage the development of electric and natural gas vehicles.
Regan Lachapelle, Reid’s spokeswoman, said canceling the cloture vote on the bill, set for tomorrow, in favor of continuing discussion with Republicans will give More…
The ethanol industry is eying the likely extension of the Bush tax cuts as a potential vehicle for extending key ethanol tax credits. (See our lame-duck preview for more on these tax credits.)
Matt Hartwig, a spokesman for the Renewable Fuels Association, a major ethanol industry trade group, told More…
Conventional wisdom says the lame-duck session of Congress will not produce any legislation of consequence. Regardless, speakers and activists at an Americans for Prosperity-organized protest outside the U.S. Capitol railed Monday against the prospect of the outgoing Democratic Congress trying to pass anything.
“It’s about trust but verify,” Dallas Woodhouse, More…
A coalition of business leaders today called for passage of a series of proposals that would provide tax credits for the purchase and production of electric vehicles.
The push comes as an electric and natural gas vehicles bill that addresses a number of the coalitions concerns is expected to come More…
A prominent coalition of unions and environmentalists called today for passage of a renewable energy standard during the lame-duck session, but offered few specifics about the likelihood that such a proposal will actually come up for a vote.
The Blue Green Alliance — which includes among its membership the United 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…
The midterm hangover having finally worn off, the 111th Congress returns today to kick off the lame-duck session, its last hurrah before its successor takes over. And the 112th Congress will look radically different, with Republicans in control of the House and the Democratic majority in the Senate significantly reduced. More…
My article on the DISCLOSE Act today mentions that Democrats are hoping, yet hardly confident, that a stripped-down version of the bill might do the trick and attract at least two Republican votes in the lame-duck session of Congress set to resume next week. The Hill, it turns out, More…
Despite widespread public opposition to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and multiple exhortations by the president for Congress to act, Senate Democrats were unable to overcome a Republican filibuster to pass the DISCLOSE Act, a bill requiring interest groups to name the donors behind their campaign ads, More…
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