In the SCHIP bill, the Democrats reduced funding from $14 billion per year to $3.5 billion in the last year, 2012. The gimmick hides $45 billion in spending. The farm bill in the Senate also used this early sunset tactic to hide $18 billion in costs.
Discussing funding reductions and spending tactics in the SCHIP bill and farm bill.
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It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.
The issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.
It makes no sense to close down nuclear reactors if they still have useful life.