| This vote was on an amendment to prohibit energy market manipulation, which was offered on the Senate agriculture appropriations bill (H.R. 2673). Although the amendment passed, it was removed in conference committee. The amendment would have ensured that the kind of rampant manipulation that contributed to the California energy crisis in 2000-2001 is not repeated. It would have amended the Federal Power Act to put in place a broad prohibition on all manipulative practices in electricity markets and specified that electricity rates resulting from manipulative practices are not legal under the Federal Power Act. Passed: 57 Yea to 40 Nay. |