The following article by Niels Lesniewski and Jeremy Dillon was posted on the Roll Call website November 29, 2017:
Updated 7:45 p.m. | Most of the focus has been on taxes, but the portion of the Senate reconciliation bill that would open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge needed to be revised, too.
Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said the fixes that are being worked out for Byrd violations in her portion of the bill would be added to a substitute to be offered by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
“We are finishing up the last of that and expect to have a curative amendment if you will as part of the process going forward,” she said.
Murkowski suggested that provisions of the bill violated the Byrd problem by either not having a budgetary impact or being extraneous in other ways. Continue reading “Tax Overhaul’s Arctic Drilling Byrd Problems Resolved”