On the budget impasse, the speaker acknowledged that in July he had gone to the Senate majority leader, Senator Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, and offered to have the House pass a clean financing resolution.
Representative Thomas Massie, a freshman Republican from Kentucky elected with the help of Ron Paul supporters, had the temerity last week to question his leadership's initial proposal, calling it a "hocus-pocus" gimmick that would have allowed the Senate to easily strip out the language defunding the president's health care plan before sending Mr. Obama a clean financing bill.
Greens: The Greens plan to shift Australia to 90% renewables by 2030 and want to increase clean energy finance to $30bn over 10 years.
It also assumes a benefit of $1.3bn from unpaid interest on money it will not be borrowing for the national broadband network and the clean energy finance corporation.
This week the government secured its first double dissolution trigger when the Senate twice rejected the government's plan to scrap the CEFC – the clean energy finance corporation.
Would the Palmer United party (PUP) keep the clean energy finance corporation, the climate change authority, even the emissions trading scheme in a kind of hibernating state in preparation for tougher international action?
Most changes have been presented as a result of the views of the senate rather than as a conscious change in direction – for example the retention of the Australian renewable energy agency and the clean energy finance corporation.
In December last year, Madigan told Fairfax media that he does "not support the abolition of the clean energy finance corporation" and yesterday abstained on the vote in the senate – hopeful signs.
Christine Milne's offer to Tony Abbott, of a double dissolution trigger based on the Senate's rejection of his bill to dissolve the clean energy finance corporation, was a smart move.
Innovation also is taking place in clean energy finance.
