(WASHINGTON, DC) – Breaking with the conventional wisdom, U-S-
Representative Rob Bishop thinks it's more than possible Congress can get some
sort of energy bill done this year, even though it'll soon be election season.
"It may come on the 22nd of December 2018, but the problem in the last
session that bogged everything down is energy and the lands issues were tied
together," he told reporters. "Keeping energy solely within energy I
think helps and makes it easier to come to some kind of conclusion." He
said Senate Energy Chairman Lisa Murkowski has
agreed to go to conference once their bills ( S. 1460 (115) and H.R. 4239 (115)) clear
their respective chambers.
What's the
holdup:
Bishop said the original plan was to vote on his onshore and
offshore energy package before the end of 2017, but those plans were shelved.
"To be honest, leadership was thinking they were having to push too many
tough votes on people and I think the whip team wanted a breather," he
said.
