The House’s decision to cancel most of its work in Washington this week is delaying action on energy and water permitting legislation.
The chamber is on recess this week after passing the Republicans’ tax cut, energy and border spending budget reconciliation package before Independence Day. Both chambers were planning to be out all last week.
Before House leaders announced the new schedule Thursday afternoon, they were planning to take up the “Promoting Cross-border Energy Infrastructure Act,” H.R. 3062, which would ease approvals for pipeline or grid connections with Canada and Mexico.
The House was also eyeing debate on H.R. 3898, the “Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today (PERMIT) Act,” a sweeping plan to ease a number of Clean Water Act reviews. It’s unclear when the bills will be back on the agenda.
