Ways and Means Committee

I'm testifying before House Ways and Means with Pickens, Sachs, GE, and US Chamber

The House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on energy tax incentives and the green job economy.  It will be webcast here. I’m on the 1 pm panel, the one The Hill says “will likely be a media circus because of the attention [T. Boone] Pickens usually draws.”  Here’s the full witness list for my panel:   T. Boone Pickens, […]

A chat with Earl Blumenauer about his ‘carbon audit’ of the U.S. tax code

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)Tucked away in the frantically assembled and hastily passed bailout bill of Sept. 2008 was a little-noticed provision that would empower the National Academy of Sciences to do a “carbon audit” of the U.S. tax code, scoring tax provisions according to their impact on the national carbon footprint. But the audit — […]

Breaking: Rangel agrees to June 19 deadline for climate bill from House Ways and Means

Washington Insight/Energy news brief from the Washington Times just reported: Chairman Charles Rangel of the House Ways and Means Committee said he learned today that his panel has a deadline of June 19 to complete its version of the cap-and-trade bill now pending in the House. The New York Democrat told reporters, “We’re going to […]