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Alexander, Top Senate Appropriator for Civilian Nuke-Weapon Agency, to Retire

Monday, December 17th, 2018

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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who this year secured full construction funding for a crucial defense-uranium plant in his home state, on Monday announced he will leave the Senate after 2020.Alexander chairs the crucial Senate Appropriations energy and water subcommittee, in which capacity he is the gatekeeper for upper chamber funding of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration: the civilian agency that maintains U.S. nuclear warheads, helps procure nuclear reactors for naval surface and submarine vessels, and processes uranium…

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