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Lisa Murkowski

House to Vote for Seventh Time on Keystone Project, With Same Result Likely

Amy Harder | 5:30 p.m.
For the seventh time in two years, the House passed legislation on Wednesday approving the Keystone XL pipeline, a 1,700-mile project to carry heavy oil from Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast. And for the seventh straight time, the bill—approved on a 241-175 vote—is likely to have little substantive effect.
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980 was preceded by weeks of geological observations and official warnings, but nonetheless killed 57 people.

How Presidents React to Natural Disasters

National Journal Staff | May 21, 2013
Obama announcement on IRS

You Want Angry? I'll Show You Angry, Obama Says on IRS Scandal

Beth Reinhard | May 15, 2013
Facing criticism from Republicans, the president reasserts his authority by pushing out the IRS's acting commissioner.
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Energy and Commerce's Jurisdiction: Anything that Moves, Burns, or is Sold

Peter Bell | April 17, 2013
That is how National Journal once described the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. House rules offer one definition of the committee’s turf, but a practical, bottom-up view of the committee’s territory is visible in the word cloud below. It shows the terms most common to the titles of the almost 350 hearings held by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its subcommittees in the 111th and 112th Congresses. The larger the word, the more frequently it appeared in those hearing titles.
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A Polarized Committee Reflects a Gridlocked Congress

Amy Harder | April 17, 2013
Shortly after Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., won the chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in December 2010, he invited all the former committee chairmen and their wives to dinner at Carmine’s in downtown Washington.
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Rand Paul Gets Skeptical Hearing At Howard University

Elahe Izadi | April 10, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky took his message of GOP inclusion to historically black Howard University Wednesday, where he received a polite but tough reception.
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Should Carnival Cruise Lines Clean Up After Itself?

Ben Terris | April 5, 2013
Taxpayers footed the bill after a sewage-filled cruise ship needed to be rescued. One senator thinks that's not fair.
Arkansas Oil Spill

Arkansas' Oil Spill Stirs Opposition to the Keystone Pipeline

Amy Harder | April 1, 2013
The spill, outside Little Rock, Ark., serves as a stark reminder that energy production comes with unavoidable risks.
Gina McCarthy

Who's In and Who's Out in Obama's Cabinet

Catherine Hollander | February 15, 2013
President Obama has chosen many of the candidates for his second-term Cabinet, but he still has eight positions left to fill. Here's a look at which positions are open, the leading contenders to fill them, and the Cabinet choices he has already made.
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Why Japan Can't Quit Nuclear Power

Olga Belogolova | February 14, 2013
Since the Fukushima meltdown, the country has tried to reduce its reliance on nuclear reactors. But with nearly a third of its energy needs powered by the atom, change is difficult.
Oil Rig

Breakthrough Nears on Tapping Offshore Energy Supply

Coral Davenport | February 5, 2013
In a season of political gridlock, a breakthrough could be near on legislation to promote energy production off the nation’s coastlines.
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Is the U.S. Government Complicit in the Killing of Over a Thousand Wild Horses?

Billy House | January 29, 2013
A bipartisan pair of lawmakers is urging Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to disclose whether as many as 1,700 federally protected wild horses now unaccounted for were sold to a middleman who illegally transported them to Mexico for slaughter.
Steven Chu

The Education of Steven Chu

Coral Davenport | January 17, 2013
The Nobel physicist was brought in to transform the energy economy, but faced political battles.

Citi Hires Tax Lobbyist

Stacy Kaper | January 9, 2013
Bill Rys has joined Citi's lobbying shop to help build Citi’s tax and revenue advocacy in Washington.
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Against the Tide

Olga Belogolova | July 26, 2012
Republicans are almost always in tune with the oil and gas industry, but they’re singing a different song on the drydocked Law of the Sea Treaty. 
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu

Obama’s Weak Bench

Olga Belogolova | June 21, 2012
The president's wary of telling his story on fossil-fuel production, and his highest-profile surrogates on energy policy are not great messengers. 
Tommy Beaudreau

Back to His Roots in Energy

Olga Belogolova | November 17, 2011
On a recent trip to Anchorage, Alaska, Tommy Beaudreau stopped by the sledding hill near his elementary school. “I remember thinking it was like Everest,” he said. Today, that hill looks like a beginner’s slope to Beaudreau.
Ken Salazar

Obama Threads the Needle With Drilling Plan

Olga Belogolova | November 9, 2011
Nobody is really happy with the Obama administration’s new five-year oil-and-gas drilling plan, which took a few steps back from the president’s pre-BP-spill drilling proposal of 2010 but also a few steps forward from what environmentalists wanted by allowing more exploration off the coast of Alaska. But neither is anyone really all that angry about the new proposal, which Interior Secretary Ken Salazar unveiled on Tuesday.
Joe Biden

Hot Ticket

Michelle Bloom | April 10, 2011
Foodies—brace yourselves. On Tuesday, the annual Embassy Chef Challenge brings together cuisines from around the world into one hunger-satisfying tasting sure to make your stomach happy.
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