Conservatives have been hard at work this week to derail the Democrats' new energy bill. Despite winning approval in the House yesterday, the measure failed to get cloture in the Senate today on a 53-42 vote. However, it's not dead yet. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could bring it up as early as next week.
My colleagues at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis today released an interactive, state-by-state gas map that reveals the legislation making its way through Congress would increase the price of gas from an early December average of $3.06 per gallon to $5.02 in 2016. And that's not all that's bad with the bill. Heritage isn't alone in this fight. The American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform and the National Taxpayers Union have all weighed in against the bill.