Sentences with phrase «comprehensive energy bill»

Cris Toledo, Chee Smith and Crownpoint High School senior Lynnea K. Smith told Senator Jeff Bingaman that the communities are counting on him to protect their interests when the Senate adopts a comprehensive energy bill in early 2002.

Last year, thanks to the leadership of the Speaker, I was able to sign a comprehensive energy bill.

Many of these efficiency provisions were part of the comprehensive energy bill we reported out of committee in 2009.

Most likely the «renewable electricity standard» (as Congress prefers to call it) will be part of a comprehensive energy bill that contains provisions on everything from the «smart grid» to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Washington, D.C. — Today, by a bipartisan vote of 59 to 40 on a cloture motion, an irresponsible minority of Senators continued to block progress on a comprehensive energy bill.

Illinois lawmakers are engaged in a last minute push to move a comprehensive energy bill over the finish line.

«If we're in a continued period of divided government, then a comprehensive energy bill... is probably less likely to get passed,» he said.

After a meeting of Senate Democrats, party leaders on Thursday said they had abandoned hope of passing a comprehensive energy bill this summer and would pursue a more limited measure focused on responding to the gulf oil spill and tightening energy efficiency standards.

He doesn't see a comprehensive energy bill being passed in the short term and cited a recent natural gas fleet incentive that came up 7 or 8 votes short.

Conceding that they can't find enough votes for the legislation, Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a comprehensive energy bill that would seek to curb greenhouse gas emissions, delivering a potentially fatal blow to a proposal the party has long touted and President Obama campaigned on.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed a comprehensive energy bill, H.R. 8, The North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act.