Date: April 20, 2016

Subject: Energy Policy Modernization Act

Description: This bill provides for a series of initiatives that increases the federal government's role in the energy sector by promoting energy projects favored by the government. These would include carbon capture, methane hydrates, industrial bioheat systems, the use of disaster relief to promote favored government energy systems, and other programs that have failed in the past and can be funded by the private sector. The bill also permanently reauthorizes the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which has nothing to do with energy programs and should be handled as a separate bill. ACU supports all forms of energy and believes government should not favor one form of energy over another.

Result: Bill Passed, 85-12

Democrat: 43 Yeas, 0 Nays, 1 Not voting
Republican: 41 Yeas, 12 Nays, 1 Not voting
Independent: 1 Yeas, 0 Nays, 1 Not voting

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