Outlook for the New Congress

Where are we going • FY 2015 operating under CR • Omnibus Release Date – December 8 (source - House Appropriations) • Expires on December 11 • Current goal: omnibus bill • Other possibilities: CR through March 31; full year CR • FY 2015 Defense Authorization • FY 2016 budget process • Return to “regular order?” • Another budget agreement?

2 2014 Senate Results Chart

The GOP takes control

3 2014 House Results Chart

The GOP expands their majority

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4 Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee

Democratic Subcommittee Members Republican Subcommittee Members • (CA), Likely RM • (TN), Likely Chair • Patty Murray (WA) • Thad Cochran (MS) • Tim Johnson (SD) • Mitch McConnell (KY)* • (LA) ??? • Richard Shelby (AL) • Tom Harkin (IA) • Susan Collins (ME) • Jon Tester (MT) • (AK) • Richard Durbin (IL) • Lindsey Graham (SC) • Tom Udall (NM) • John Hoeven (ND) • Jeanne Shaheen (NH) [ – Possible RM] *as Majority Leader, McConnell may take a leave of absence from the Committee

5 House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee

Republican Subcommittee Members • Michael Simpson (ID), Chair • Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (NJ) Democratic Subcommittee • Alan Nunnelee (MS), Vice Chair Members • (CA) • (OH), RM • Chuck Fleishmann (TN) • Pete Visclosky (IN) • Tom Graves (GA) • Ed Pastor (AZ) • (NE) • Chaka Fattah (PA)

6 Senate Armed Services

Republican Subcommittee Democratic Subcommittee Members Members  Carl Levin (MI), Chair  James Inhofe (OK), Current RM Jack Reed (RI), New RM  John McCain (AZ), New Chair  (FL)  Jeff Session (AL)  Claire McCaskill (MO)  Saxby Chambliss (GA)  Mark Udall (CO)  Roger Wicker (MS)  Kay Hagan (NC)  Kelly Ayotte (NH)  III (WV)  Deb Fishcer (NE)  Jeanne Shaheen (NH)  Lindsey Graham (SC)  Kristen Gillibrand (NY)  (LA)  Richard Blumenthal (CT)  Roy Blunt (MO)  Joe Donnelly (IN)  Mike Lee (UT)  Mazie Hirono (HI)  (TX)  (VA)

 Angus King (ME)

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House Armed Services Republican Committee Members Democratic Committee Members  Buck McKeon (CA), Chair  (VA)  (WA), RM  Joaquin Castro (TX)  (TX),  Chris Gibson (NY)  (CA)  Tammy Duckworth (IL) New Chair  (MO)  Mike McIntyre (NC)  Scott Peters (CA)  Walter B. Jones (NC)  (NV)  Bob Brady (PA)  William Enyart (IL)  (VA)  Jon Runyan (NJ)  Susan A. Davis (CA)  Pete Gallego (TX)  Jeff Miller (FL)  Austin Scott (GA)  James R. Langevin (RI)  (TX)  Joe Wilson (SC)  (MS)  (WA)  Tulsi Gabbard (HI)  Frank LoBiondo (NJ)  Martha Roby (AL)  (TN)  Rob Bishop (UT)  (AL)  Madeleine Bordallo (GU)  (OH)  (FL)  Joe Courtney (CT)  John Kline (MN)  Kristi Noem (SD)  David Loebsack (IA)  Mike Rogers (AL)  (CA)  Niki Tsongas (MA)  (AZ)  Jim Bridenstine (OK)  (GA)  Bill Shuster (PA)  (OH)  Colleen Hanabusa (HA)  (TX)  (IN)  (CA)  (CO)  Rob Barber (AZ)???  (VA)  Andre Carson (IN)  Duncan D. Hunter (CA)  Carol Shea-Porter (NH)  John C. Fleming (LA)  Dan Maffei (NY)  Mike Coffman (CO)  (WA)

8 2014 Election Impact on DOE

DOE Budget • DOE FY15 spending not yet finalized by Congress • FY 2014 Enacted—EM: $5.8B, NNSA: $11.2B, NE, $889M • Total DOE FY2014 Enacted - $27.2B • Omnibus Appropriation being negotiated. . . • FY2015 government spending capped by Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 • FY 2015 Request—EM: $5.6B, NNSA: $11.6B, NE: $863.4M • Total DOE FY2015 Request - $27.9B • House E&W Appropriations • DOE: $27.3B, EM: $5.6B, NNSA: $11.3B, NE: $899M • Senate E&W Appropriations • DOE: $28.3B, EM: $5.8B, NNSA: $11.8B, NE: $777M • FY 2016 to be determined • FY 2016 Request—Due to be released in February • Recommended funding levels sent to OMB in September • Return to sequestration?

10 Pressure for Action in Six-Week Window

Nov 6, 2014 Nov 12, 2014 December 12, 2014 Election Day Lame Duck Projected End of Session Begins Lame Duck Session

Lame Duck Session

11 Big Issues Moving Forward

• Budget • President’s Request FY 16 • Hearings • Issues • State Agreements • New Contracts • Defense High Level Waste/Yucca Mountain/Interim storage • NNSA Modernization • WIPP • Shrinking the footprint • Leadership in DOE

12 Actions Now

• Manhattan Project Park Legislation • FY 15 Appropriations Bill • FY 16 Budget • What the Appropriators care about • Recent • Historically • Lack of Movement on Land Transfer

13 “Normal” Appropriations/Authorization Process?

February-April: Spring/Summer Early February: Jan: President Congress Holds Appropriations and President’s Budget Introduces Hearings on the Authorization Bills Submitted to Priorities in State Appropriations for marked up and of the Union Congress NNSA/DOE passed by Senate and Defense and House Authorization Committees

Summer/Fall Appropriations and By Oct 1: Beginning Oct 1 or thereafter: Authorization Bills of Fiscal Year Congress Approves – conference Appropriations Committee meetings

Until Appropriations Bills Passed, Continuing Resolution

14 – D Governors • West Valley Demonstration Project Site • Separations Process Research Unit • Brookhaven National Laboratory – R • Moab, UMTRA Susana Martinez - R Brian Sandoval - R Bill Haslam - R Rick Perry - R Project New Mexico Nevada Tennessee • Los Alamos National Laboratory • Nevada National Security Site • Oak Ridge Reservation Pantex • Sandia National Laboratory • Yucca Mountain • Oak Ridge National • Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Laboratory • Y-12 National Security – D Complex • Rocky Flats

Jerry Brown – D • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Energy Technology Engineering Center

John Kasich - R Nikki Haley - R Jay Inslee – D Butch Otter - R South Carolina • Hanford Site • Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant • Savannah River Site • Pacific Nuclear • Mound Site • Idaho National Laboratory 15 National Laboratory Governors

Andrew Cuomo – D Gary Herbert – R Steve Beshear - D • West Valley Demonstration Project Site • Moab, UMTRA Project • Separations Process Research Unit • Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant • Brookhaven National Laboratory

Jerry Brown – D John Hickenlooper – D • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Jay Inslee – D • Rocky Flats • Energy Technology Engineering Center • Hanford Site • Pacific Nuclear National Laboratory

16 Questions

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18 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

Republican Committee Members Democratic Committee Members

 Lisa Murkowski (AK)—Ranking  Mary Landrieu (LA), Chair ???  John Barrasso (WY)  (OR)  James E. Risch (ID)  Tim Johnson (SD)  Mike Lee (UT)  Maria Cantwell (WA)

(NV)  (VT)  (AZ)  Debbie Stabenow (MI)  Tim Scott (SC)  Mark Udall (CO)  Lamar Alexander (TN)  Al Franken (MN)

 Rob Portman (OH)  Joe Manchin (WV)  John Hoeven (ND)  Brian Schatz (HI)  Martin Heinrich (NM)

 Tammy Baldwin (WI)

19 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

Republican Committee Members Democratic Committee Members

 David Vitter (LA)—Ranking  (CA)—Chair  Jim Inhofe (OK), New Chair  Thomas Carper (DE)  John Barrasso (WY)  Ben Cardin (MD)  Jeff Sessions (AL)  Bernie Sanders (VT)

(ID)  Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)  Roger Wicker (MS)  Tom Udall (NM)  John Boozman (AR)  Jeff Merkley (OR)  Deb Fisher (NB)  Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)  Cory Booker (NJ)  Ed Markey (MA)

20 House Natural Resources Committee

Republican Committee Members Democratic Committee Members

 Doc Hastings (WA)— Chair  Jon Runyan (NJ)  Peter DeFazio (OR)–  (PA)  (AK)  (OK) Ranking  (MA)  (TX)  Steve Daines (MT)  Eni Faleomavaega (AS)  Rob Bishop (UT)  Kevin Cramer (ND)  , Jr. (NJ)  Doug Lamborn (CO)  Doug LaMalfa (CA)  (CA)  Rob Wittman (VA)  Jason T. Smith (MO)  Rush Holt (NJ)  Paul Broun (GA)  Vance McAllister (LA)  Raul Grijalva (AZ)  John Fleming (LA)  Bradley Byrne (AL)  Madeleine Bordallo (GU)  Tom McClintock (CA)  (CA)  Glenn “G.T.” Thompson (PA)  (NMI)  Cynthia Lummis (WY)  Niki Tsongas (MA)  Dan Benishek (MI)  Pedro Pierluisi (PR)  (SC)  Colleen Hanabusa (HI)  Scott Tipton (CO)  Tony Cardenas (CA)  (AZ)  (CA)  Raul Labrador (ID)  (CA)  Steve Southerland (FL)  Carol Shea-Porter (NH)  (TX)  (CA)  (FL)

21 House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Committee Members Democratic Committee Members  Henry A. Waxman (CA)—  Jerry McNerney (CA)  (MI)—Chair  Leonard Lance (NJ) Ranking  Bruce Braley (IA)  (TX)  (LA)  John D. Dingell (MI)  (VT)  (TX)  (KY)  Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ)  Ben R. Lujan (NM)  Ed Whitfield (KY)  (TX)  Bobby L. Rush (IL)  (NY)  John Shimkus (IL)  David McKinley (WV)  Anna G. Eshoo (CA)  John Yartmuth (KY)  Joseph R. Pitts (PA)  Cory Gardner (CO)  Eliot L. Engel (NY)  Greg Walden (OR)  Mike Pompeo (KS)  (TX)  Lee Terry (NB)  (IL)  Diana DeGette (CO)  Mike Rogers (MI)  (VA)  (CA)  Tim Murphy (PA)  (FL)  Mike Doyle (PA)  Michael C. Burgess (TX)  Bill Johnson (OH)  (IL)  Marsha Blackburn (TN)  (MO)  Jim Matheson (UT)  Phil Gingrey (GA)  Renee Ellmers (NC)  G.K. Butterfield (NC)  (LA)  John Barrow (GA)  (OH)  (CA)  Cathy McMorris Rodgers  Donna Christensen (VI) (WA)  (FL)  Greg Harper (MS)  (MD)

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