A senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee warned fellow lawmakers Tuesday that a failure to pass a stalled national security package could imperil domestic nuclear energy production.
The assertion from Massachusetts Rep. Bill Keating, the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Europe, came during a hearing on reducing the United States’ dependence on Russia’s nuclear sector.
It was perhaps the most high-profile and urgent instance yet of a member of Congress calling attention to the supplemental funding package’s billions of dollars for domestic nuclear fuel production.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are deep in efforts to approve new funding for domestic uranium and to block future imports of Russian nuclear fuel, but haggling over legislative priorities has killed any momentum.
