Cleaner, Greener, and Smarter Act of 2009
Latest action · Jan 7, 2009 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 5.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 6, 2009
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Cleaner, Greener, and Smarter Act of 2009 - Calls for the enactment of legislation to improve the economy and the security of the United States by reducing U.S. dependence on foreign and unsustainable energy sources and the risks of global warming by: (1) making and encouraging significant investments in green job creation and clean energy across the economy; (2) diversifying and rapidly expanding the use of secure, efficient, and environmentally friendly energy supplies and technologies; (3) transforming U.S. infrastructure to make the infrastructure sustainable and the United States more competitive globally, including transmission grid modernization and transportation sector electrification; (4) requiring reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the United States and achieving reductions in emissions of GHGs abroad; (5) protecting consumers from volatile energy prices through better market oversight and enhanced energy efficiency standards and incentives; and (6) eliminating wasteful and unnecessary tax breaks and giveaways that fail to move the United States toward a more competitive and cleaner energy future.
Cosponsors 20
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 6, 2009 to Jan 7, 2009, with 19 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MN | Amy Klobuchar | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-MD | Barbara A. Mikulski | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-CA | Barbara Boxer | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-NY | Charles E. Schumer | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-CT | Christopher J. Dodd | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-MO | Claire McCaskill | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-HI | Daniel K. Akaka | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-MI | Debbie Stabenow | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-MA | Edward M. Kennedy | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-NY | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-NH | Jeanne Shaheen | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-MA | John F. Kerry | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
| D-AK | Mark Begich | Original | Jan 6, 2009 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 7, 2009Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 5.
- Jan 6, 2009Introduced in Senate
- Jan 6, 2009Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S45)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Energy.
- Air quality
- Alternative and renewable resources
- Climate change and greenhouse gases
- Electric power generation and transmission
- Employment and training programs
- Energy
- Energy efficiency and conservation
- Energy prices
- Energy storage, supplies, demand
- Environmental technology
- General taxation matters
- Infrastructure development
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 7, 2009Placed on Calendar Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.