Whitehouse, Booker Announce Legislation to Update Licensing Frameworks for...
(Source: Sheldon Whitehouse) RSS Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Washington, D.C. - Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the bipartisan Nuclear Energy Regulatory Modernization...
View ArticleAppropriations Committee Includes Congresswoman Hahn’s Request for 1.2...
(Source: Janice Hahn) Funding level is above the funding target outlined in WRRDA Washington, DC-Today, Congresswoman Janice Hahn (CA-44) expressed her appreciation to the leaders of the House...
View ArticleSchedule for the Week of April 18, 2016 (US Senate Committee on Appropriations)
(Source: US Senate Committee on Appropriations) 04.15.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following is the schedule for the Senate Committee on Appropriations for the week of April 18, 2016. TUESDAY, APRIL 19,...
View ArticleBrown Announces Funding for Cleanup at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in...
(Source: Sherrod Brown) Wednesday, April 13, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on...
View Article12 Nuclear Realities Whose Names Must Not Be Spoken
‘Nuclear Security’ – The Quintessential Oxymoron? It ended, with no apparent sense of irony, on April Fools’ Day. Obama’s much-heralded ‘Nuclear Security Summit’ came to a close on April 1st in...
View ArticleHearing Schedule for the Week of April 4, 2016 (US Senate Committee on...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Appropriations) 04.01.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following is the hearing schedule for the Senate Committee on Appropriations for the week of April 4, 2016. TUESDAY,...
View ArticleHoeven: Energy Appropriations Bill Supports Updates to Cruise Missiles at...
(Source: John Hoeven) 04.15.16 WASHINGTON - Senator John Hoeven today announced that the Senate's Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, which the full Senate Appropriations...
View ArticleA Bad Idea for Nuclear Security
SCK-CEN "Too clever by half." That was a favorite expression of derision from my late colleague Paul Leventhal, a former congressional staffer who helped forge the Nuclear Nonproliferation Act of 1978....
View ArticleMikulski Announces FY17 Energy and Water Bill Includes Increased Public...
(Source: Barbara A Mikulski) Monday, April 18, 2016 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Vice Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced Committee approval on...
View ArticleMerkley and Murray Announce Key Appropriations Win To Address Tribal Housing...
(Source: Patty Murray) Portland, OR - U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Patty Murray of Washington announced today that the U.S. Senate is pressing the U.S. Army of Corps of Engineers (Army...
View ArticleMcCarthy Statement on California Water in the Energy and Water Appropriations...
(Source: Kevin McCarthy) Washington, DC - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement upon the release of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies...
View ArticleMerkley And Murray Announce Key Appropriations Win To Address Tribal Housing...
(Source: Jeff Merkley) Thursday, April 14, 2016 Portland, OR - U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Patty Murray of Washington announced today that the U.S. Senate is pressing the U.S. Army of...
View ArticleMandatory Spending Will Determine R&D Budgets (AAAS - American Association...
(Source: AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science) As federal science agencies continue to recover from the 2013 sequestration funding cuts, every major science agency's budget is...
View ArticleCal Thomas commentary: Your hard-earned, easily spent tax dollars at 'work'
As the tax deadline approaches it’s once again time to consider how the federal government wastes our money. Remember the spending caps that were supposed to keep Congress from overspending? Gone with...
View ArticleIs The U.S. Really A Leader In Clean Energy?
Without exception, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is all about Atomic Energy Defense (AED). Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), on the other hand, are far from mission critical. To the...
View ArticleBlunt Subcommittee Reviews NIH Budget Request (US Senate Committee on...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Appropriations) 04.07.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,...
View ArticleHiggins Says Greater Investment Needed in Radioactive Site Clean-up (Brian...
(Source: Brian Higgins) Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-26) expressed disappointment with the level of funding included in the 2017 Energy and Water Appropriations bill for the U.S. Army Corps of...
View ArticleCAGW Releases 2016 Congressional Pig Book (CAGW - Citizens Against Government...
(Source: CAGW - Citizens Against Government Waste) For Immediate Release Contact: Curtis Kalin 202-467-5318 April 13, 2016 Schatz: 'Earmarks are making an unwelcome comeback' (Washington, D.C.) -...
View ArticleFederal Funding Ensured for Diversion in 2017 through Energy and Water...
(Source: Fargo-Moorhead (FM) Area Diversion Authority) (April 18, 2016) North Dakota senators ensured federal funding for the FM Area Diversion Project will be included in the fiscal 2017 budget. Sen....
View ArticleCochran Subcommittee Considers FY17 Missile Defense Agency Budget Needs (US...
(Source: US Senate Committee on Appropriations) 04.13.16 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and its Subcommittee on Defense, today...
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