NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
House Leadership Announces FY21 NDAA Conferees
House Armed Services Committee | 11/18/2020
Representatives Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, today recognized the following members of the Committee who have been named by House Leadership to serve on the House-Senate conference committee to resolve the differences in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization
Act:
The following Members of the House Armed Services Committee were named to serve on the House-Senate conference committee:
Majority
- Rep. Adam Smith (WA), Chairman
- Rep. Susan Davis (CA)
- Rep. James Langevin (RI)
- Rep. Rick Larsen (WA)
- Rep. Jim Cooper (TN)
- Rep. Joe Courtney (CT)
- Rep. John Garamendi (CA)
- Rep. Jackie Speier (CA)
- Rep. Donald Norcross (NJ)
- Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ)
- Rep. Seth Moulton (MA)
- Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA)
- Rep. Anthony Brown (MD)
- Rep. Ro Khanna (CA)
- Rep. William Keating (MA)
- Rep. Filemon Vela (TX)
- Rep. Andy Kim (NJ)
- Rep. Kendra Horn (OK)
- Rep. Gil Cisneros (CA)
Minority
- Rep. Mac Thornberry (TX), Ranking Member
- Rep. Joe Wilson (SC)
- Rep. Mike Turner (OH)
- Rep. Mike Rogers (AL)
- Rep. Doug Lamborn (CO)
- Rep. Rob Wittman (VA)
- Rep. Austin Scott (GA)
- Rep. Vicky Hartzler (MO)
- Rep. Elise Stefanik (NY)
- Rep. Trent Kelly (MS)
- Rep. Mike Gallagher (WI)
- Rep. Don Bacon (NE)
- Rep. Jim Banks (IN)
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Piketon Councilman not reappointed to SSAB
Southern Ohio Today | 11/11/2020
A local councilman who was a member of the Portsmouth Site Specific Advisory Board has not been reappointed to the board despite two years remaining on his six-year term limit.
The Portsmouth SSAB is a board made up of volunteers from Jackson, Pike, Ross and Scioto counties that provides advice to the U.S. Department of Energy on matters related to the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant near Piketon.
Dennis Foreman, a member of the Piketon Village Council, had served a pair of two-year terms on the board, but DOE did not approve his third two-year term.
“I was told the new (membership) package came out and I was not included in the new one. I asked why I was not included and was told the decision was made on multiple levels and that it was final,” Foreman said. “They gave me no explanation.”
NUCLEAR WASTE
Washington state Ecology officials should consider grouting low-level Hanford waste
Tri-City Herald | 11/17/2020
At a public meeting on May 16, 2019, the Washington State Department of Ecology spokesperson, Suzanne Dahl, insisted that all low-activity waste “must be vitrified” in spite of recent recommendations of experts in three reports by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a consortium of national laboratories, and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
These reports concluded that an alternative method for grouting low-level waste and disposing of it in a licensed facility out-of-state is safer, much less costly, and can be done decades sooner than vitrification, thereby protecting both workers and public health and safety.
NUCLEAR WASTE
APPROPRIATIONS
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Sept. 8-10 National Cleanup Workshop 2021
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