In This Issue:

- Energy and Climate

- Congress

- Administration

- Department of Commerce

- Department of Energy

- Department of Interior

- Department of Justice

- Environmental Protection Agency

- General Services Administration

- International

- States

- Miscellaneous

- Excerpt from Energy and Climate Debate:

The House and Senate face a full schedule the next several days before departing Friday for the Easter and Passover two-week recess.

The House will begin consideration this week of its fiscal year 2016 budget resolution. The Senate will follow suit, spending much of the week focusing on the legislation and offering numerous amendments, including several energy and climate related measures. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) said March 23 that he is working with some of his colleagues, including Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Ed Markey (D-MA), to craft a package of climate amendments to the budget resolution. It is likely that both chambers will pass their competing budgets this week, opening the door to using the filibuster-proof reconciliation process to move other top agenda items, including energy measures.