House Maintains Modest Increases in all 12 Appropriations Bills Above FY 2019 Levels On June 11 officials from the White House & Office of Management and Budget will meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) & Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) to chart a path forward on the FY 2020 appropriations bills that…
Ed Whitfield (R-KY) Chairman, U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Power
Kentucky Congressman Ed Whitfield, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power has indicated that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce is likely to take up legislation in October that will revise the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Before the August recess, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) assigned four republican colleagues; Cory Gardner (R-CO), Lee Terry (R-NE), Steve Scalise (R-LA) and John Shimkus (R-IL) the job of writing draft legislation to alter the energy mandates. The draft legislation will begin the legislative process in Whitfield’s Subcommittee.…
