
A Georgia congressman released a written request that House appropriators accept the White House's funding request for the Savannah River Site’s proposed plutonium pit factory and reject a proposed cut for the site’s H-Canyon chemical separations plant. Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) made the requests ahead of Wednesday’s scheduled Member’s Day hearing, an annual exercise in which lawmakers who are not on the appropriations committee can ask lawmakers who are for district-level favors. Allen, in written testimony posted online, asked that…