This legislation addresses hydropower projects, which are dams that generate electricity from moving water. When a company wants to build one of these facilities, they receive a permit from a government agency called the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, but that permit comes with a strict deadline for starting construction. This bill allows the agency to grant extensions of up to six years for projects approved before March 2020. It also allows the government to reactivate permits that recently expired so those projects can still be built with the extra time. The House voted on this using a process called "suspension of the rules." This is a shortcut used for bills that have broad support and aren't expected to be controversial. Under this procedure, members skip the usual long debates and amendments in exchange for a higher bar for success: the bill needs a two-thirds majority to pass rather than just a simple majority. It is essentially a way for Congress to quickly clear its schedule of non-controversial business. Because the bill received 394 votes, far more than the two-thirds required, it passed easily with support from both parties. Since this was a Senate bill that has now been approved by the House, it has cleared the major hurdles in Congress. The next step is for the bill to be sent to the President, who can sign it into law or veto it.