In a speech today at Savannah Technical College in Savannah, Georgia, President Obama highlighted the benefits of the Home Star “Cash for Caulkers” program and encouraged Congress to act on legislation authorizing its creation. In his speech, the President provided details about the proposed Home Star incentives, which would award homeowners up to $1,500 for specific ...
Today, the Senate passed an important cloture vote on what Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) hopes will be the first of several job-creation bills. It appears that three to five additional jobs bills are in the works, including legislation authorizing the Home Star “Cash for Caulkers” Program. The Senate voted to proceed with this ...
On February 11, 2010, Senators Max Baucus of Montana and Charles Grassley of Iowa, the senior Majority and Minority members of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, unveiled the first in a series of job-creation bills currently under development in Congress. Congressional leaders have indicated that three to five more job bills will be released after ...
On Friday, January 29, 2010, Efficiency First, the national home performance trade advocacy group, along with partners from the Building Performance Institute, RESNET, and the National Save Energy Coalition, conducted a web conference that provided an update on the current status of the proposed HOME STAR Cash for Caulkers Program legislation as well as filled ...
In his State of the Union Address last Wednesday (January 27, 2010), President Obama singled out clean energy as a crucial path to economic growth and called on Congress and the American people to “make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.” In reference to job creation in particular, the President said: Tomorrow, I’ll visit ...
So, there is no real news on the status of legislation that may impact the Cash for Caulkers Home Star Program. As you may have noticed, Congress hasn’t exactly made the progress that was expected on health care reform, and Cash for Caulkers and other potential stimulus programs are still a work in progress. ...
How will Cash for Caulkers work? Currently, we only know what has been proposed, and we need to caveat our answers by pointing out that the actual legislation that may emerge from Congress may lead to a number of changes. However, based on the proposed plan unveiled in December 2009 and some other ...
The HOME STAR “Cash for Caulkers” Program proposal has been embraced by the White House, but funding and implementation of the program will require Congressional action. We don’t expect to see much movement in that regard until after the health care reform bill is completed. Legislative support for HOME STAR is unrelated to the jobs bill ...
HOME STAR (better known as “Cash for Caulkers”) is a proposed US federal government program that would provide direct incentives to homeowners who invest in improving the energy efficiency of their homes. The basic structure of the HOME STAR program was developed by a committee of private sector advisers. Venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner ...
A major objective of the Cash for Caulkers HOME STAR Program is to create well paid, sustainable job opportunities for American workers, especially for those workers left unemployed by the collapse of the construction industry. Again, program details have not been finalized, but this post provides a brief overview of what we know so far ...