Federal Tax-Credit Bills Compete

Several different federal tax credit bills are currently being considered in the U.S. Congress. The intent of all of these bills is to spur energy conservation measures in buildings, but the bills do this in very different ways, some of which could prove harmful to the industry and wasteful of taxpayer money.

One of the bills, a bipartisan measure known as the Smith-Feinstein bill in the Senate (S. 207) and the Cunningham-Markey bill in the House (H.R. 778), is the reintroduction of a bill from the last Congress (see

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