This Week on the Hill
This week the Senate will officially start legislating. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) will hold their mark-up of the Kerry-Boxer bill beginning on Tuesday. As of now, Chairman Boxer’s legislation does not look like it will garner any Republican votes to send it to the floor and even some committee Democrats have expressed reservations about the draft. Although the EPW’s mark up is a significant step in the legislative process, the real action will come from outside the committee where there are serious efforts to bring in a major revision of America’s nuclear energy policy and possibly increased offshore oil production.
Tuesday, November 3
The EPW Committee, starting at 9 a.m., will begin the markup of the S. 1733, the cap-and-trade bill, in Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Thursday, November 5
The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a 10 a.m. hearing in Room 1324 of the Longworth House Office Building on “Getting Past Gridlock: Models for Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission.”
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