Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 1652 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Utility Energy Service Contracts Improvement Act of 2013''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) the Federal government is the largest consumer of energy in the United States; (2) Federal agencies are expected to meet, by law, Executive order, and mandate, stringent energy efficiency and conservation targets; (3) the utility energy service contract (referred to in this section as ``UESC'') was developed to provide Federal agencies an effective means to implement energy efficiency, renewable energy and water efficiency projects, and has been used successfully to invest nearly $2,700,000,000 in property at Federal facilities; (4) the General Services Administration, which manages more than 9,600 Federal properties and is the lead agency for procuring utility services for the Federal government, has determined that UESCs may extend beyond a 10-year period under the law; (5) the Federal Energy Management Program, which oversees the UESC program and is a principal office guiding agencies to use funding more effectively in meeting Federal and agency-specific energy and resource management objectives, has determined…”