Obama budget request for hi-tech energy office 'timid': Republican

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate energy committee's head on Thursday said President Barack Obama's budget request for an agency that funds projects that could revolutionize energy markets - like long-range car batteries and turning bacteria into fuel - was too "timid." The White House's budget for fiscal 2016, released on Monday, includes $325 million for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E. That represented an increase of $45 mill