Budget Control Act of 2011: A Simple Guide
This is a very simple guide to the Budget Control Act of 2011. There are more details but this serves as an easy to read breakdown of the Act. Yesterday the United States House of Representatives passed the Budget Control Act of 2011 (S. 365) the votes were tallied at 269 to 161. 174 [...]
How will your Rep. Vote?
August 1st: How will your Rep vote? In favor of the Bill: Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) Judy Biggert (R-Ill.) Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) John Boehner (R-Ohio) Kevin Brady (R-Texas) Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) Tom Cole (R-Okla.) Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) Bob Dold (R-Ill.) Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) Jeff Fortenberry [...]
House Natural Resources Committee: Full Committee Oversight Hearing on “State Perspectives of Offshore Revenue Sharing.”
The House Natural Recourses Committee held a Full Committee Oversight Hearing on “State Perspectives on Offshore Revenue Sharing” on July 27, 2011. The Honorable Doc Hastings offered his insight on offshore revenue sharing. Representative Hastings said in his opening statement that he believes “ it’s crucial to recognize that revenue sharing will increase [...]
Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act
Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) brought forth legislation that has financial incentives for the investment of offshore wind energy. Cosponsers include Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Susan Collins (R-ME), Chris Coons (D-DE), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Sherod Brown (D-OH). Senator Menendez was quoted as saying “ This targeted, temporary incentive will [...]
Details of Budget Agreement
The debt ceiling would be raised by $2.1 trillion with spending cuts of $1 trillion over the course of ten years. The cuts will be enacted immediately. CUTS: $350 billion from the defense with another $1.5 million to be cut via a bipartisan committee by November 23, 2011 If there is no agreement on the [...]
An Intern on the Debt Crisis
Being an intern in Washington DC is a privilege at any point in time. I feel especially lucky to be an intern when DC is the talk of the world. Being a political junkie I have followed the debt crisis religiously since arriving in DC. Living with a moderate, a right wing nut and [...]
NEW MOA
A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was reached between the Bureau Of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) -U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. Coast Guard-U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The MOA became effective Jul7 27, 2011. The purpose of the MOA is to clarify the roles of each party involved in [...]
DC Summer Blog!
Happy Monday OREC members and followers! It must be something in the Washington DC water because I could not wait to get to work on this very Monday morning. Tom Wilson once said, “Mondays are the potholes in the road of life” but I could not disagree more! As I said, it might be something [...]
Adjusting to my role
Hello everyone it’s Lindsay again, the new OREC intern. I just wanted to give everyone an update on how working remotely from Buffalo has been going for me. I won’t pretend that it’s not a challenge sometimes but overall it’s been going well. If I had to identify the most difficult aspect of working from [...]
Senate Mark-Up
The United States Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources met on July 14th to discuss and vote on various bills. The bills ranged from energy policy to public land and water issues. The Mark-Up resulted in the reporting of 23 bills, 17 of which included public land and water bills. The bills that are [...]
