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Despite support from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), an amendment to jump-start the adoption of natural gas vehicles (NGV) and the supporting infrastructure for large trucking fleets failed in the Senate Tuesday as lawmakers did not obtain the 60 votes needed to fend off a filibuster.

The Senate late Thursday confirmed Mark P. Wetjen, former policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), to a five-year term on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), succeeding departing Commissioner Michael Dunn.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has signaled that a vote on energy legislation — largely focused on oil spill safety, natural gas vehicles, home energy retrofits and possibly a renewable electricity standard (RES) — will be delayed until after the November elections, but energy officials don’t expect to see an energy bill out of Congress this year and maybe not even next year.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has signaled that a vote on energy legislation — largely focused on oil spill safety, natural gas vehicles, home energy retrofits and possibly a renewable electricity standard (RES) — will be delayed until after the November elections, but energy officials don’t expect to see an energy bill out of Congress this year and maybe not even next year.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) decision last week to table consideration of competing Democratic and Republican energy/oil spill bills until the Senate returns in September came as no surprise, and in fact was a relief to the oil and natural gas industry.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has pulled the plug on plans to consider the competing Democratic and Republican energy/oil spill bills before Congress leaves for the August recess, pushing action to September.

Natural gas as a transportation fuel has much to gain from the initial version of the current U.S. Senate energy bill introduced by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and a similar House version, according to a California-based marketer of compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) used for transportation.

The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Monday urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to use the committee’s proposed oil and natural drilling reforms as the basis for his narrower energy bill that is expected to be taken up this week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) last Thursday scrapped plans to move forward with a broad-based climate and energy bill, but said he planned to bring to the floor a “narrower bill,” minus the controversial cap-and-trade element, before the Aug. 6 recess.