APPROPRIATIONS
Appropriators aim for agreement on government funding totals by week’s end
Politico | 11/17/2020
Top 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.
A 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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