"Efforts to extend and revise an assortment of expired or soon-to-lapse energy tax breaks before the end of the year are struggling to find air in a crowded agenda. Policy and process disagreements are also getting in the way.
Lawmakers and interest groups for months have eyed the end of year to enact an extenders package to revive more than two dozen tax breaks — including key biofuel and efficiency incentives — that have expired or will lapse by Dec. 31.
But the lack of progress on appropriations and daily partisan rancor over the House's impeachment inquiry may deprive congressional tax-writers of one crucial ingredient: a legislative vehicle.
Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has been looking to the Nov. 21 expiration of the current stopgap funding measure for moving extenders, but with the annual appropriations process already months behind schedule, there's talk of simply punting spending decisions into February or March."
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