Murkowski vowed to continue her collaborative efforts to ensure that her bipartisan energy bill advances through a conference with the House of Representatives and becomes law before the end of this year.
Continue working with House of Representatives conferees to advance the bipartisan energy bill and enact it before the end of 2016.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Latest Action: 09/08/2016 Conference held. This bill has the status Resolving Differences.
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Lisa Murkowski convened the first meeting of Senate and House conferees to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016.
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Congress.gov shows S.2012 reached only 'Conference held' on 09/08/2016 and the tracker status remained 'Resolving Differences,' with no enactment into law shown on the bill page.
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Congress.gov lists S.2012's latest action as a September 8, 2016 conference held and its bill status as resolving differences, not enacted as a public law.
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The Senate Energy Committee said Murkowski convened the first meeting of Senate and House conferees on S.2012 on September 8, 2016.
Assessments
Murkowski materially advanced S.2012 during the 2016 Senate term by convening and participating in House-Senate conference activity, matching the promised effort component. However, the specific promised outcome was enactment of the bipartisan energy bill before the end of 2016, and Congress.gov shows the bill remained in conference/resolving differences with no public law enacted by that deadline. Because this was a serious legislative attempt that failed to deliver the enacted-law outcome, it is best scored as never with effort credit.
Murkowski actively advanced the bipartisan energy bill in 2016, including convening conference talks, but Congress.gov shows the bill remained in resolving-differences status and was not enacted before the end of 2016. That is a serious legislative effort that fell short of the promised outcome.
Murkowski materially advanced S.2012 during the 2016 campaign/term by convening House-Senate conferees and moving the bipartisan energy bill into conference. However, the promised outcome specifically required enactment before the end of 2016, and the bill remained in resolving-differences status rather than becoming law. This is a serious same-term legislative effort, but the promised enactment did not occur.