ON TAP TUESDAY: The House will take up its proposed
energy and water spending bill, a measure that takes a whack at the
clean-energy priorities of President Obama and Democrats. Tuesday starts what figures to be a
free-wheeling amendment process and floor debate that could carry on for two
days. The GOP-crafted $30.4 billion
fiscal 2014 Energy and Water Development appropriations bill is ideologically
far apart from the budget Senate Democrats and the president have put together.
House Republicans say the bill reflects a tighter fiscal situation, as
Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) argued that it "gets
back to the basics."
The House bill nearly halves clean-energy spending
from last year's enacted levels. It also aims to restart using Yucca Mountain
as the nation's sole permanent nuclear waste repository — Obama pulled the plug
on the Nevada site in 2010 — despite White House and Senate resistance. Those differences will make it tough to
negotiate a spending plan with the upper chamber, and Obama threatened to veto
the House bill Monday. The House plan will probably pass regardless, with a
bulk, if not all, of the support coming from Republicans....To Read More.....
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