{"id":49328,"date":"2016-02-03T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=49328"},"modified":"2016-02-03T10:25:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:25:48","slug":"energy-policy-senate-voting-on-major-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/02\/energy-policy-senate-voting-on-major-update\/","title":{"rendered":"ENERGY POLICY: Senate Voting On Major Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Senate today will vote on a Republican measure limiting the president’s authority to set national monuments and a Democratic proposal to set national energy efficiency standards, as the chamber tries to finish work on a bipartisan energy package by week’s end.<\/p>\n

Senators will vote this afternoon on an amendment by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to sunset national monument designations after three years unless Congress and the monument’s home state enact legislation to make them permanent.<\/p>\n

A second amendment by Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) to the broad energy legislation (S. 2012<\/a>) would create a national energy efficiency resource standard.<\/p>\n

Both amendments will have to surpass a 60-vote threshold for approval — a bar that Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said backers are unlikely to meet.<\/p>\n

“We will see how the votes go out, but I think you’ve noted the obvious — that there is some controversy associated with both of them,” she told E&E Daily<\/em> last night.<\/p>\n

However, Murkowski noted that both amendments represent priorities of both parties and reflect her push with ranking member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) to maintain the bipartisan spirit that carried S. 2012 through committee last summer on an 18-4 vote.<\/p>\n

“What we’re trying to do is put together a process that is viewed as fair by both sides,” she said. “So if you’ve got a tough one on the D side, maybe you pair it with a tough one on the R side.”<\/p>\n

Read Full Article =>\u00a0ENERGY POLICY: Senate to vote on monuments, efficiency standard — Tuesday, February 2, 2016 — www.eenews.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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