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Nuclear Modernization

HASC Subcommittee Moves To Constrict DOE Plans For Nuclear Weapon Cores

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

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Democrats on the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee on Tuesday used their majority on the panel to kill a GOP amendment that would have kept the Department of Energy’s plan to produce plutonium pits in South Carolina off the chopping block. Subcommittee Democrats, led by Rep. James Cooper (Tenn.), quashed the amendment from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) 10-8 during a markup of the panel’s portion of the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual policy bill that sets…

Congress

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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