N Am Energy Security and Infrastr Act 2
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CoC pushes</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2015/12/fred-upton-delivered-big-time-for-big.html">https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2015/12/fred-upton-delivered-big-time-for-big.html</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">our old nemesis-- and by "our" I mean planet Earth's, the </span><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">L.A. Times</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> explaining that </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">his "disdain for green regulation, he represents one of the biggest threats to planet Earth on planet Earth"-- got his energy bill passed yesterday. Upton's <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d114:HR00008:@@@D&summ2=m&">H.R. 8</a>, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, passed the House <a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll672.xml">249-174</a>, only 3 Republicans (libertarian leaning GOPers Justin Amash, Walter Jones and Thomas Massie) voting against it... although 9 worthless DINOs crossed the aisle in the other direction-- as they always do-- and voted with the GOP:</span>
</font><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); margin: 0.75em 0px; border-style: dotted; border-color: rgb(85, 153, 102); border-image: initial; border-width: 1px 0px; padding: 5px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>•</b> Brad Ashford (<b>Blue Dog</b>-NE)
<b>•</b> Jim Costa (Blue Dog-CA)
<b>•</b> Gwen Graham (Blue Dog-FL)
<b>•</b> Gene Green ($1,221,738-TX)
<b>•</b> Ann Kirkpatrick (New Dem-AZ)
<b>•</b> Ann Kuster (New Dem-NH)
<b>•</b> Collin Peterson (Blue Dog-MN)
<b>•</b> Kurt Schrader (Blue Dog-OR)
<b>•</b> Kyrsten Sinema (Blue Dog-AZ)</font></blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">If it passes the Senate-- unlikely-- President Obama has promised to veto it. It was known around Capitol Hill as Fred Upton and Global Warming Denier's Corporate Energy Bill</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">. Pennsylvania progressive Democrat Matt Cartwright, who offered a motion to recommit, predicted that Upton and the Republican climate change deniers would go down in history as the "greatest ignoramuses of all time... Sticking our heads in the sand, pretending a serious problem will go away on its own, doing nothing in the face of a grave threat, is not the American way, and it never was."</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">The League of Conservation Voters urged all Members of Congress to vote no because Upton's bill "further entrenches fossil fuels while failing to make the necessary clean energy investments for our future" and included a provision "that would allow pipelines to be built on National Park land without the necessary environmental reviews.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">.. This bill contains an efficiency title that would increase energy use and costs to consumers, a hydropower title that curtails NEPA review along with state, local, and tribal authority over projects on their own lands, and provisions that could lock in dirty fossil energy for decades to come at a time that we should be investing in cleaner, cheaper alternatives." They also asked congressmembers to reject Joe "Oily Joe" Barton's amendment "that would lift the crude oil export ban. This provision is a massive giveaway to the oil industry and would be on top of billions in existing permanent tax subsidies. Multiple analyses show that lifting the crude oil export ban would increase oil production by at least 500,000 barrels per day, leading to more climate pollution and more drilling on our public lands, in the Arctic, and off our coasts."</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">Frank Pallone is the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and he took to the floor of the House to warn that Upton's lobbyist-written bill meant bad news for "the environment,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> on air pollution and on climate change" and offered an amendment to prevent the bill from becoming law until the Energy Information Administration had analyzed the impact and scored its carbon impact. That was voted down </span><a href="http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll670.xml" style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">181-243</a><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">, a little closer because 4 Republicans (2 from districts in Florida already being impacted by rising oceans) voted with the Democrats, while only 4 (instead of 9) hardcore energy industry whores among the Democrats-- Costa, Peterson, Schrader and, Washington state New Dem Rick Larsen-- voted with the Republicans.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The bill is also a national security threat inasmuch as it lifts the ban on selling U.S. crude oil overseas, something the oil companies heavily bribed Upton and Joe Barton to include</span></font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">. Since 1990 Upton has taken $2,494,518 from energy special interests, more than any other current members of the House other than Joe "Oily Joe" Barton (R-TX) and Steve Pearce (R-NM), formerly an oilfield services company owner himself. This current cycle has seen the Energy Sector step up to the plate for Upton again, his $282,650 (so far) being second only to Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's $292,550.</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">The Democrat in southwest Michigan opposing Upton and his Big Oil Machine is professor and environmental activist </span><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">Paul Clements</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> (you can </span><a href="https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/blueamerica16?refcode=dwt&recurring=11&tandembox=show" style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">help him win here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">) who told us right after the vote that "Congressman Upton is one of the top ten recipients of campaign contributions from Big Oil in the House and Senate combined. With H.R. 8 he once again increases profits for carbon polluters, raises costs for consumers, and undermines environmental protections. We need to quit subsidizing the energy of the past and take the lead in energy for the future."</span>
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So who got the biggest payoffs so far <b>this cycle</b> from the Energy Sector? No surprises here; these are the dirty dozen, polluting the earth to pad their campaign war chests this year:</span>
</font><blockquote style="margin: 0.75em 0px; border-style: dotted; border-color: rgb(85, 153, 102); border-image: initial; border-width: 1px 0px; padding: 5px 15px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> </span><b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)- $292,550</b>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fred Upton (R-MI)- $282,650
<b>•</b> Steve Scalise (R-LA)- $258,550</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Charles "Lord Charles" Boustany (R-LA)- $196,750</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Ed Whitfield (R-KY)- $159,600</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Bill Shuster (R-PA)- $156,700</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> John Shimkus (R-IL)- $144,500</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Joe "Oily Joe" Barton (R-TX)- $143,650</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Steny Hoyer (D-MD)- $133,400</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Greg Walden (R-OR)- $129,800</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Will Hurd (R-TX)- $125,400</span>
<b style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);">•</b><span style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204);"> Bill Flores (R-TX)- $124,859</span></font></blockquote></div><div style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); clear: both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;" /><p class="blogger-labels" style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Labels: <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Big%20Oil">Big Oil</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/energy%20bill">energy bill</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Fred%20Upton">Fred Upton</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20warming">global warming</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Matt%20Cartwright">Matt Cartwright</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/MI-06">MI-06</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Clements">Paul Clements</a></font></p></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sponsor:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK] (Introduced 09/09/2015)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committees:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Senate - Energy and Natural Resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee Reports:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>S. Rept. 114-138</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Latest Action:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>07/12/2016 Message on Senate action sent to the House. (All Actions)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roll Call Votes:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There have been 21 roll call votes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tracker:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This bill has the status Resolving DifferencesHere are the steps for Status of Legislation:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IntroducedPassed SenatePassed HouseResolving DifferencesTo PresidentBecame Law</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More on This Bill</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CBO Cost Estimates [1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Subject — Policy Area:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">View subjects</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Summary (1) Text (3) Actions (238) Titles (58) Amendments (363) Cosponsors (0) Committees (1) Related Bills (92)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Summary: S.2012 — 114th Congress (2015-2016)All Bill Information (Except Text)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Listen to this page</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There is one summary for S.2012. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shown Here:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Introduced in Senate (09/09/2015)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This bill amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 with respect to energy efficiency in buildings and appliances.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy of the Department of Energy (DOE) shall conduct activities with respect to manufacturing energy efficiency.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Vehicle Innovation Act of 2015</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DOE shall conduct research, development, engineering, demonstration, and commercial application programs regarding passenger as well as medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and transit vehicles.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Federal Power Act is amended with respect to cybersecurity threats, and requirements are prescribed for enhanced electric grid security as well as bulk-power system reliability.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPCA is amended regarding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Natural Gas Act is amended with respect to liquefied natural gas exports.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DOE shall conduct programs with respect to electric grid storage and related grid matters.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 is replaced by the Exascale Computing Act of 2015, and DOE shall conduct research for development of two or more exascale computing machine architectures.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and specified other Acts regarding:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">hydroelectric power,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">geothermal energy,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">marine hydrokinetic renewable energy,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">biomass,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">oil and gas,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">helium,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">specified critical minerals,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">coal,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">nuclear energy,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">21st century energy workforce development, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">recycled carbon fiber and nonrecycled mixed plastics.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Energy Policy Act of 2005 and other Acts are amended to:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">revise or prescribe requirements for loan and loan guarantee incentives for innovative technologies, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">establish an e-prize competition or challenge pilot program to implement community and regional energy solutions to reduce energy costs in high-cost regions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DOE and the Department of the Interior shall establish a joint NEWS Office and Interagency Coordination Committee on the Nexus of Energy and Water for Sustainability.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior may develop a current and accurate multipurpose cadastre to support federal land management activities.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Department of Energy Organization Act is amended to:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">direct the President to establish a Quadrennial Energy Review Task Force,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">rename the DOE Under Secretary for Science as the Under Secretary for Science and Energy,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">direct the DOE Energy Information Administration (EIA) to develop a plan to identify all oil inventories and other physical oil assets owned by the 50 largest traders of oil contracts, and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">create within the EIA a Financial Market Analysis Office.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill establishes a Working Group on Energy Markets.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The EPCA is amended to repeal the mandates for various specified studies, reports, plans, and programs.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill establishes a National Park Service Critical Maintenance and Revitalization Conservation Fund, and revises requirements for the Land and Water Conservation Fund and the Historic Preservation Fund.</font></div></div><div>
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