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Congress Rides In From Recess On A Wave Of Nuclear Policy Moves

Friday, November 30th, 2018

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Congress Rides In From Recess On A Wave Of Nuclear Policy Moves

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

Lawmakers set the stage for the nuclear weapons debate to come in the next Congress with a wave of bills and rhetoric that burned the post-Thanksgiving fog from Washington last week.Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — upon whom partisans and the press have heaped presidential buzz — provided a capstone last Thursday with a speech at American University. She articulated a three-point nuclear arms control plan that put Democrats on the House and Senate Armed Services committees on more or less…

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