Chairman's Press
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Chairman Frank H. Murkowski today chastised the Administration for its lack of business sense in not assuring that heating fuel distilled from Strategic Petroleum Reserve oil remain in…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Chairman Frank H. Murkowski today responded to the objection Sen. Barbara Boxer D-CA, lodged against H.R. 2884, the re-authorization for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Northeast home…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Five Senate Energy and Natural Resource bills passed the Senate late last night by unanimous consent. Included in the block of bills was H.R. 3084 (Rep. Shimkus),…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate passed four Energy and Natural Resources Committee bills this week. Among the two measures that were passed late Thursday night, was H.R. 4115, which authorizes…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– “The Interior Appropriation Committee has substituted end-of-the-year smoke and mirrors for the Conservation and Re-investment Act, CARA,” said Chairman Frank H. Murkowski. “It is possible that none of…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– While telling Committee Members that the “Risk of human-induced climate change is a risk we should address responsibly,” Chairman Frank H. Murkowski cautioned that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “This country is choking on its own nuclear waste. Because the Department of Energy has so far failed to meet its contractual obligation to dispose of spent…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congressional supporters of a far-reaching initiative to fund conservation, wildlife, coastal and related programs announced Tuesday evening they had negotiated a package on the Conservation and Reinvestment Act,…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– According to his press release, Vice-President Al Gore today announced “that he would recommend that the President use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ensure that oil prices stabilize…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today cleared 43 bills and one resolution for the Senate’s approval. Among those passed was H.R. 3084, which would authorize…
WASHINGTON, D.C.– One Senator has decided to hold up the passage of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve re-authorization, and the creation of a Northeast home heating oil reserve. This measure has…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate passed S. 1608, the Timber Receipts / County Payments bill, unanimously late Wednesday night. The bill authored by Sens. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Ron Wyden…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At the request of Chairman Frank H. Murkowski, $1 million was added to the Energy and Water Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2001 to fund an Office…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate confirmed Dr. Mildred S. Dresselhaus as the Department of Energy’s Director of the Office of Science by unanimous consent late Wednesday night. A native New…