In This Issue:

- Extenders Déjà Vu: Fate of Expired Clean Energy Tax Provisions Closely Tied to Election

- Congress

- Administration

- Department of Commerce

- Department of Energy

- Department of Interior

- Department of State

- Environmental Protection Agency

- National Aeronautics And Space Administration

- Nuclear Regulatory Commission

- International

- States

- Miscellaneous

- Excerpt from Extenders Déjà Vu: Fate of Expired Clean Energy Tax Provisions Closely Tied to Election:

Now that summer is drawing to a close, let’s check in on one important bill that lost momentum just as the summer was beginning. Remember the Senate Finance Committee’s tax extenders package (S. 2260), which the committee marked up on a bipartisan basis in mid-May? The one that was poised to pass the Senate but that surprisingly failed to reach cloture after Senate leadership blocked Republican amendments on the bill? At the time, congressional staff and lobbyists—and even Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) —suggested that the extenders package would come up again in the lame duck session after the November election. The House was not expected to vote on an extenders package before then anyway, so the Senate delay would not really impact the timing of final passage of this two-year extension of more than 50 tax provisions.