House racing to pass appropriations bills to avoid continuing resolution and shutdown Washington Examiner | 7/8/23 As the House gears up for an appropriations fight with the Senate, the likelihood of the two chambers agreeing on spending levels for the 12 appropriations bills by the Sep. 30 deadline is slim.
This means a continuing resolution — a short-term stop-gap measure that extends government funding at
the prior year’s rate — is likely to happen to give Congress more time to pass the 12 appropriations bills. The House only has a total of 24 days in session between now and Sep. 30, when government funding runs out. They also only have 12 days in session before Sep. 1. So, realistically, they would have to pass a continuing resolution in order to give appropriators more time to work on the 12 appropriations bills.
But members of the Republican Conference don’t want to fall back on a continuing resolution, so the plan is to try and
pass the 12 appropriations bills off the House floor with enough time to negotiate with the Senate before the Sep. 30 deadline.
“The speaker doesn't have a desire to go to a CR, and it's why we've tried to move these appropriations bills through the process,” Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), said. "The speaker is trying to reverse that trend of increasingly relying upon CRs, going to regular order, and allowing the Appropriations Committee in the House to
work as well. And so that's what we're trying to do.” Continue
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Illinois may lift historic ban on building nuclear power plants as state
continues transition from coal and gas Chicago Tribune | 7/9/23
Already home to more nuclear power plants than any state in the nation, Illinois is on the verge of
lifting a nearly four-decade-old ban on building reactors as the state transitions from coal and natural gas.
The move comes as other states have rescinded similar bans and policymakers are taking a fresh look at nuclear as another alternative to generate energy without increasing carbon output.
And while the legislation lifting the ban in Illinois moved relatively quietly through the General Assembly earlier this year, the effort has led labor unions and environmentalists — two groups that typically align with the Democrats who
dominate Springfield — to be on opposite sides of the issue. Labor sees the possibility of new nuclear plants as an opportunity to preserve high-paying jobs in the energy sector, while environmentalists see it as an expensive distraction from a future with cleaner power sources. Continue reading >> |
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