Nevada National Security Site officials say a facility housing weapons grade plutonium is safe from earthquake threats that could expose radiation to surrounding populations.
Gary Martin
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Gary Martin is the Washington correspondent for the Review-Journal covering Congress. He previously served as political and government editor for the San Antonio Express-News. He has worked at newspapers in Texas and Arizona. Martin received a journalism degree from Colorado State University.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell invoked the name of his predecessor, former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, when he triggered yet another change to Senate rules on presidential federal district judges and lower-ranking administration officials.
An issue where political leaders said they could find common ground — lowering prescription drug prices that have soared in recent years — is being addressed by two House lawmakers who filed a bipartisan bill Wednesday modeled after a Nevada law to cut costs of insulin for diabetic patients.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry acknowledged Tuesday that the Nevada National Security Site — where weapons grade plutonium is being stored — and the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository are located in an area considered a seismic hazard.
Former Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper returned to the nation’s capital Tuesday with the Philadelphia Phillies and was met with some tough love from fans who burned his jersey and a mayoral tweet that likened him to an infamous Revolutionary War traitor.
Nevada Democrats in the House are seeking to use the appropriations process to block future Department of Energy transfers of plutonium to the state as well as administration efforts to jump start licensing hearings to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
A defense safety board is concerned the Department of Energy has failed to address a vulnerability to earthquake hazards at a Nevada National Security Site facility where nuclear materials are stored — including a recent shipment of weapons-grade plutonium.
A $32 million National Guard readiness center under construction in North Las Vegas has been lopped off a list of potential military construction projects being eyed by the Trump administration for funds to build a border wall.
Senate Democrats grilled Interior Secretary nominee David Bernhardt during a confirmation hearing about his lengthy lobbying career for energy interests and possible conflicts involving public lands and coastal waters.
A Trump administration proposal to open Yucca Mountain and other interim sites for nuclear waste storage got a friendly reception Wednesday from key Senate lawmakers.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell forced a procedural vote Tuesday on the controversial Green New Deal to expose a divide in the Democratic ranks on a topic Republicans hope to use as a political wedge issue in 2020.
President Donald Trump secured a victory Tuesday over House Democrats who failed to garner the bipartisan votes needed to override a veto that leaves the president’s national emergency declaration intact.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry defended his $31.7 billion budget request Tuesday, including $116 million to restart the licensing hearings required to build a permanent storage facility for high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry is expected to tell a House panel that his $31.7 billion budget blueprint includes $116 million to restart licensing hearings on a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Congressional Democrats vowed Monday to pick up where Special Counsel Robert Mueller left off and continue probes into the president and his administration.
