Morgan Meguire News

The House and Senate are on track to adjourn for the year this, possibly as early as Wednesday.  The House approved the "must-pass" FY 2008 omnibus appropriations bill on Monday (see details below) and the Senate is considering it today.  However, the Senate is also expected to amend the bill, to add more money for the war in ...

On December 17, the House approved H.R. 2764, an omnibus appropriations bill for FY 2008, which includes funding for 11 of the 13 spending bills.  The Senate is expected to take action on the bill today and the President has indicated that he will sign the bill.  The omnibus bill includes a 1.747% across-the-board cut in spending, with ...

Today (12/17), the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a confirmation hearing for Jon Wellinghoff to be commissioner at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  His current term does not expire until June 30, 2008, but in a surprise move late last week (12/12), the White House re-nominated Wellinhoff for a full 5-year ...

On Tuesday, December 18, the House passed HR 6, the "energy independence" bill, by a vote of 314-100 and sent it to the President for signature.  The Senate passed the bill on Friday (12/14) by a vote of 86-8. President Bush isexpected to sign the bill into law. Two major U.S. policy changes in the bill include: raising fuel ...

On December 14, the Senate passed, S. 2302, the "Food and Energy Security Act of 2007," (the "Farm bill"), by a vote of 79-14.  There are several important sections of the bill for public power.  Under Title 9 of the bill, there is language that makes public power entities eligible for grants and loans under Section ...

On December 6, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced S. 2423, the Emission Allowance Market Transparency Act of 2007, to facilitate price transparency in markets that sell emission allowances.  In introducing the bill, Feinstein said that, in order to facilitate emission allocation price transparency for any pollutants (including any ...