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.
Assessments
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.