Sensenbrenner Urges Senate to Restore Yucca Mountain Funds to Spending Bill
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Category: Government CommitteesType: News
Source: U.S. House Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming
Party: Republican
Date: Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, made the following statement today on the release of 1,924-page Senate appropriations legislation that eliminates backing for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository:
"Senate Majority Leader Reid should not use a vital appropriations bill to kill the crucial Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. Congress chose Yucca Mountain as the location for a critically-needed waste storage facility, and taxpayers have invested $10 billion and 30 years of research into its development. A plan of this importance shouldn't be subjected to back-door efforts to kill it. This backing should be restored immediately."
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