Gordon said, "Enacting a moratorium at a moment when coal is badly needed to ensure a secure and reliable energy supply is wrong-headed on many fronts."
Sen. Mike Enzi’s Communications Director Max D’Onofrio said the Senate passed the defense bill on Dec. 8 and the president signed the bill into law last week.
The Senators also ask that an appropriations bill include specific language prohibiting funding from being obligated or transferred to the Green Climate Fund.
The nation's polarized political climate could do a serious disservice to the judiciary for a long time if a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is not made soon.