ECA Update: Senate Committee Holds Hearing on DOE Nominees; GOP Plans On Stopgap Bill To Avert Shutdown; & more

Published: Wed, 01/17/18

ECA UPDATE
Jan 17, 2018
FEATURED
LEGISLATIVE
Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee to Consider DOE Nominations
ECA Staff | January 17, 2018

The full Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on January 18, 2018 to consider the nominations of Melissa Burnison to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Anne White to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management at the U.S. Department of Energy.

The hearing is scheduled for 10:00am EST in 366 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Witness testimony and a live stream of the hearing will be available HERE.
 
BUDGET & APPROPRIATIONS
House GOP rolls out spending stopgap to avert government shutdown
Defense News | ​​​​​​​January 15, 2018

House GOP leaders on Tuesday unveiled a spending plan to fund the government through President's Day to once again buy time for a broader spending deal.

The plan was pitched in a closed-door meeting with just three days until government funding runs out.


If approved, it would be Congress' fourth spending patch in four months.


Lawmakers would then have until Feb. 16 to draft a trillion-dollar omnibus bill that lasts through September.

IN OTHER NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan 17  EM Site-Specific Advisory Board, Nevada; Beatty, NV​​​​​​​​​​​​​​



Feb 20-22  2018 Nuclear Deterrence Summit; Arlington, VA

March 18-22  2018 Waste Management Symposia; Phoenix, AZ

April 11-12 ECA Annual Conference; Washington, DC

Sept 11-13  2018 National Cleanup Workshop; Alexandria, VA