APPROPRIATIONS
Appropriators aim for agreement on government funding totals by week’s end
Politico | 11/17/2020
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appropriators hope to secure bipartisan, bicameral agreement by the end
of the week on overall funding totals for a massive 12-bill spending
package, which would prevent a government shutdown on Dec. 11 and boost
agency budgets for the remainder of the fiscal year.
“The
next few days will tell us a lot about whether Congress can pull off
the bipartisan, bicameral appropriations process that I believe both
sides would like to deliver,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
said on the floor on Tuesday.
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LEGISLATION
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Revitalize America’s Nuclear Infrastructure
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | 11/17/2020
U.S.
Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI),
Mike Crapo (R-ID), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced bipartisan
legislation to revitalize the United States’ nuclear infrastructure. S.
4897, the American Nuclear Infrastructure Act of 2020, will enable U.S.
international leadership, preserve America’s nuclear
fuel supply chain, reduce carbon emissions, and strengthen our economic,
energy, and national security.
APPROPRIATIONS
U.S. Senate proposal rejects Trump’s $748 million budget cuts for Hanford
Tri-City Herald | 11/16/2020
The U.S. Senate has joined the House in rejecting a deep cut to Hanford spending proposed by the Trump administration.
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Senate proposal that would provide $748 million more in annual spending
than proposed in the Trump administration’s budget for fiscal year 2021
for the Hanford nuclear reservation has been released by a
subcommittee.
The
Senate Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee
proposes a budget of nearly $2.6 billion for the nuclear reservation,
where environmental cleanup is underway after the site produced
plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program during World War II
and the Cold War.
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