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DoE Nuke Agency Staffer Taking Job on Senate Appropriations Panel

Wednesday, June 17th, 2020

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DoE Nuke Agency Staffer Taking Job on Senate Appropriations Panel

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Nora Khalil is leaving the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to become the lead Republican staffer on the Senate Appropriations panel that writes the agency’s annual budget bill each year, a source familiar with the move said. Khalil is now the agency's associate administrator for external affairs. She will replace Adam DeMella, who is leaving Sen. Lamar Alexander’s (R-Tenn.) staff to work in Washington for the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Alexander chairs the Senate…

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