Spending cut likely in Senate

Spending cut likely in Senate

Washington (Platts)--10Apr2006

Two key Senate appropriators made it clear last month that they plan to cut
DOE's $544 million request for the repository program in fiscal 2007, which
begins October 1.

"That has got to come down," said Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New
Mexico, who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that controls DOE spending.
Domenici's comment came after a subcommittee hearing in which several members
criticized the DOE budget request for cutting spending on clean coal and other
energy programs.

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the subcommittee's ranking Democrat and a fierce
opponent of the DOE repository project at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, told
reporters he didn't know how the much-delayed program could effectively spend
that much money.

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