Promote & protect the interests of natural gas and electric utilities in any legislation considered by the House Energy & Commerce Committee and the Senate Energy & Natural Resources  Committee regarding energy and climate legislation affecting natural gas utilities or electric utilities, including efficiency mandates. Advocate for the coordination of natural gas and electric power to provide reliable and secure energy to end use customers of electric and natural gas.  Extension of Presidential memorandum on implementation of energy savings projects and performance based contracting for energy savings.S 2262:  Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2014,HR 1616:  Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013,HR 1659:  Federal Buildings Energy Savings Act of 2013,HR 2351:  To repeal the fossil fuel consumption percentage reduction requirements for Federal buildings under the Energy Conservation and Production Act,H.R. 2689 - Energy Savings Through Public Private Partnership
Draft legislation on energy efficiency and codes and standards H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, to establish minimum federal requirements for the disposal of coal combustion residuals;S. 1009, the Chemical Safety Improvement Act, for modernization of the Toxic Substances Control Act (PCB issues); Support lower rates on taxation of dividends.Tax reform.Tax extenders.Promote the development of the natural gas vehicle market by supporting various incentives. HR 1364:  New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2013;HR 2202/S 1103:  LNG Excise Tax Equalization Act.Support incentives to produce biogas.Support incentives for high efficiency natural gas furnaces, boilers and water heaters (25C tax credits).Support incentives for energy efficiency buildings (179D).Discussion drafts, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (cost-recovery, energy tax credits, taxation of derivatives, dividend tax rates, deduction for interest paid on corporate debt, corporate tax rate);H.R. 259, the Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act, (tax incentives for electric vehicles and fueling infrastructure);H.R. 407, the Clean Vehicles Incentive Act of 2013, (tax incentives for electric vehicles);H.R. 1129, the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013;H.R. 1486, the No Carbon Tax Act of 2013;H.R. 1569, the New Fair Deal Busting Americas Rigid Outdated & Needless Subsidies Act of 2013, (tax incentives for electric vehicles and fueling infrastructure);H.R. 3474, the Hire More Heroes Act of 2014, (energy tax extenders);
H.R. 4718, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify and make permanent bonus depreciation;H.R. 4754, the Managed Carbon Price Act of 2014;H. Con. Res. 24, expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy;
S. 795, the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act;S. 1225, the Solar Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Act of 2013;S. 2003, the Renewable Energy Parity Act of 2014;
S. 2148, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 (pension smoothing);S. 2260, the Expiring Provisions Improvement Reform and Efficiency (EXPIRE) Act, (energy tax extenders);S. 2287, the Carbon Capture and Sequestration Deployment Act regarding CCS technology incentives;S. 2288, the Expanding Carbon Capture through Enhanced Oil Recovery Act of 2014 regarding expansion of existing tax credits to encourage CCUS;
TBD, the Highway Trust Fund Extension, (pension provisions and energy tax credits). Support pro-industry Cybersecurity bills that have a public-private partnership (no top-down regulatory process); public-private information sharing; liability protections for information sharing; federal R&D support; and appropriate criminal penalties for bad actors.  These issues arose in:HR 967:  Advancing Americas Network and Information Technology Research and Development Act of 2013;HR 2952:  Critical Infrastructure Research and Development Advancement of 2013;HR 3107:  Homeland Security Cybersecurity Boots-on-the-Ground Act;HR 3696:  National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2014;H.R. 624, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act;
H.R. 867, the Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2013;
H.R. 2417, the Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage (SHIELD) Act regarding protection of the bulk-power system and defense critical electric infrastructure against natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse threats and vulnerabilities; 
H.R. 2962, the Saving More American Resources Today (SMART) Grid Study Act of 2013 regarding a National Research Council study on the resilience and reliability of the electric power transmission and distribution system;
H.R. 3304, the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2014, (EMP-related provisions);
H.R. 3696, the National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (NCCIP) Act of 2013;H.R. 4007, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program Authorization and Accountability Act of 2014;H.R. 4298, the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense (GRID) Act;H.R. 4435, the FY 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, (electric grid security-related provisions);H.R. 4871, the TRIA Reform Act of 2014;S. 394, the Metal Theft Prevention Act of 2013;S. 1353, the Cybersecurity Act of 2013;S. 1638, the Cybersecurity Public Awareness Act of 2013;S. 2158, the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense (GRID) Act;S. 2244, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2014;S. 2519, the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center Act of 2014;Discussion draft of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (Feinstein-Chambliss);Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Program.
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