House Bill: Solving Our Energy Problems with Lightning?
On Tuesday this week, the House passed an energy bill that had been introduced late the night before.
It’s bad practice to introduce a bill and take it to the floor without giving members of Congress and the public a chance to read it, but House Republicans were really howling because they had staged a protest over the fact that the House had not addressed the energy issue before leaving for the August recess.
The bill passed this week is H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act.
It may come up in the Senate before the adjournment that’s scheduled for the end of this month, but it’s going to be hard to get agreement on something with the intense politics and all the competing bills out there.
Anyway, a preliminary cost estimate has come out, showing savings of a little over $40 per U.S. family should this bill pass. That estimate only includes direct spending and taxes, which would both go down. Discretionary spending (which can be a lot) isn’t included yet. We’ll update you when a full estimate comes out.
In the meantime, the speed with which this bill went through Congress suggests that someone’s idea to solve our energy problems was lightning . . . [rimshot!]
Here’s the current vote on H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act. Click to vote, comment, learn more, or edit the wiki article about the bill.
Darren Weaver
It seems to me that this bill is a pet project of the speaker of the house to decieve the american public that she and her party care about the energy problems. This bill is a shameful, scam.
This bill has only 3 co-sponsors all democrates. The competing one H.R. 6709 has 119 co-sponsors including 30 democrates,and can’t get a vote since July? What does that tell you? This one is rigged.
Even the US Chamber of Commerces are against 6899 the Pelosi Scam.