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
Latest Action: 09/08/2016 Conference held. This bill has the status Resolving Differences.
Lisa Murkowski convened the first meeting of Senate and House conferees to S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016.
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.
Assessments
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.