Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said the House was not able to hold a vote on the bill because they wanted to attend the National Republican Congressional Committee's “Bright Lights and Broadway” fundraiser, the Alaska Journal reported.
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A Republican senator is claiming the GOP killed an energy bill to attend a party
A Republican senator is claiming House GOP leaders shelved work on an energy bill just before their holiday recess in order to make it to a fundraiser in New York.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
The bill, which senators spent two years working on and would have been the first energy reform bill in a decade, aimed to expand energy production and simplify federal regulation.
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