Agreement to vote on several amendments to S.1, Keystone
The Senate has reached an agreement to vote on up to 18 amendments tomorrow. On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 2:30pm, the Senate will proceed to vote in relation to the following amendments in the order listed:
- Cardin amendment #75 (local water supplier)
- Peters amendment #70 (pipeline safety)
- Sanders amendment #23 (solar panels)
- Cruz amendment #15 (expedited export of natural gas to WTO)
- Merkley amendment #125 (infrastructure)
- Moran amendment #73 (prairie chicken)
- Whitehouse amendment #148 (campaign finance disclosure re: Keystone)
- Daines amendment #132 (Sense of Congress national monuments)
- Coons amendment #115 (climate resiliency projects)
- Collins amendment #35 (school building efficiency)
- Carper amendment #120 (fuel cell motor vehicles)
- Murkowski amendment #166 (wilderness study areas)
- Heitkamp #133 (renewable tax credits)
- Gillibrand amendment #48 (fracking)
- Barrasso amendment #245 (tribal treaties)
- Cardin amendment #124 (tribal treaty requirements)
- Daines amendment #246 (SoS Land and Water Conservation Fund) -side by side to Burr amendment #92
- Burr amendment #92, as modified (Land and Water Conservation Fund)
Further, all amendments on this list be subject to a 60 vote affirmative threshold for adoption and that no second degrees be in order to the amendments. There will be 2 minutes of debate equally divided between each vote, and that all votes after the first in the series be 10 minute votes.
