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Jasper Packard: “I simply have to oppose this amendment because it totally eliminates the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative, which I…”

On the recordJune 27, 2000
I simply have to oppose this amendment because it totally eliminates the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative, which I think would be a terrible mistake. This has been an initiative very modestly funded while essential to keep nuclear energy safe and to continue nuclear energy as a viable part of our energy resources. It is clean. It is proven to be safe. It is 20 percent of our Nation's electricity. And to eliminate the entire NERI project I think would be absolutely unconscionable. We have beefed up, as has already been said just in the previous amendment tonight, $40 million additional to renewable energy resources. And we think that that is even beyond what is necessary, but certainly we are willing to do that. But to add $19 million more to that I think would not be appropriate. And so, I urge all Members to vote against the amendment to cut nuclear R&D.
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Jasper Packard
Republican · Indiana
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Opposing an amendment that would eliminate the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative during a committee discussion.

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