Bingaman with a plan: it's better than Bush's, but the Dems' energy bill falls short. (Gazette).(Jeff Bingaman)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, February, 2002 by Bradley, William
AFTER TWO DECADES OF drift and a year of crisis, the Democrats have finally proposed a serious, future-oriented energy policy. The Energy Policy Act of 2002 (Senate bill S1766), introduced by Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, does not come a moment too soon: The lack of a coherent Democratic energy doctrine has played to the benefit of a particularly oil-intent Republican White House.
Notably, House Democrats helped George W. Bush and Dick Cheney beat back amendments on auto fuel efficiency and Alaskan oil drilling last summer. Of the two parties' ...
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