The first piece of legislation approved by the 113th Congress this year was a bill designed to help speed development of new hydropower.* Not only did the U.S. House of Representatives pass the bill, the lawmakers passed it unanimously (422-0). This isn't the first time Congress passed this same legislation. Essentially the same bill was introduced in the 112th Congress, and, in July 2012, it received unanimous House approval. According to the National Hydropower Association (NHA), this was the only substantive piece of energy legislation to receive unanimous House approval in 2012. (The bill never came to a Senate vote before the previous session of Congress ended.)
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