Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), left, sponsored an amendment that restored fossil fuel research funding to its 2017 level of $668 million.
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The House of Representatives voted Thursday to approve a large spending bill for fiscal year 2018 that slashes clean energy spending and approves keeping fossil fuel research at current levels.
In a spending package known as the “minibus,” the House voted to set the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) budget at $1.1 billion, a 45 percent cut from the office’s fiscal 2017 budget of more than $2 billion. The Trump administration requested an even bigger cut for the Department of Energy office that would have lowered its budget to $636 million, or 70 percent, below the 2017 budget.
The funding measure passed 235–192, with five Democrats voting for, five Republicans voting against, and six representatives abstaining. It still needs approval from the Senate before it passes into law — a thin […]
Stephan, I’m so pleased that you post so many articles on what The RINO’s are doing openly in America. While the mass media is attempting to transfix the populace on Donald Trump the man, who is only a distraction, the real change is proceeding at light speed to destroy what most Americans believed was their birthright. It still is. Now though, those same enlightened beings will have to advocate for it even more. If consciousness is indeed the real reality many of us are coming to believe, then at some point, i.e., the tipping point, there will be a sea change of how humans operate in not only America, but, the the rest of the world as well. Bless you for continuing with this advocacy for social, political and economic change.