CLEMSON ON CAPITOL HILL
This Week
Both the House and Senate return to Capitol Hill today and will be in session the next two weeks leading up to the annual President’s Day recess.
Senate Energy Authorization Bill
The Senate has begun consideration of a bipartisan and comprehensive energy reauthorization bill. The Energy Policy Modernization Act (S. 2012) contains language to reauthorize energy programs in the America COMPETES Act: the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
President’s Budget to be released on February 9
The White House will release the President’s budget request for FY 2017 on February 9. The package is expected to stick to the caps on defense and nondefense discretionary spending agreed to last year, which would largely freeze FY17 funding at the FY16 level.
To view the STATE UPDATE for February 1, 2016 click here.