How The New Omnibus Budget Affects Climate And Energy Policy

Clean Technica: Earlier this week, lawmakers dropped a $1.1 trillion bill to fund the federal government’s discretionary spending through the rest of fiscal year 2014. The omnibus budget represents a bipartisan compromise aimed at relieving some of the sequester cuts, while also extending funding that would’ve run out this week, and holding off another government shutdown brawl until at least September. Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, told the Washington Post that he expects most Congressional members from both parties to vote in favor of the budget.

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