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House Subcommittee Passes 2019 DoE Budget Bill; Full Committee Markup TBD

Tuesday, May 8th, 2018

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House Subcommittee Passes 2019 DoE Budget Bill; Full Committee Markup TBD

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

The House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee approved a roughly $36 billion Department of Energy budget bill Monday, which heads to the full committee for a markup that had not been scheduled at deadline for sister publication Weapons Complex Morning Briefing.The Department of Energy (DoE) would receive a 5-percent budget raise overall from 2018, if the bill the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee marked up becomes law. Overall, the proposed budget is about 20 percent more than the…

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