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  • Porter says Iraqis fear quick exit

    WASHINGTON - Many Iraqis are afraid the United States will abandon its postwar reconstruction if Osama bin Laden is captured, Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., said Friday during a visit to the Middle East and South Asia.
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  • Second Amendments launch tour

    Everyone's favorite (and only) congressional rock band, the Second Amendments, is packing up its amps and hitting the road.
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  • Bill allows cooperation to fight weeds

    WASHINGTON - Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., introduced legislation Thursday that would allow the National Park Service to contract with private landowners and local governments to combat invasive weeds.
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  • Porter promotes bills to consolidate programs

    WASHINGTON - Rep. Jon Porter invoked Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday in promoting bills that would spur efforts to consolidate or eliminate government programs.
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  • Nevada legislators add to sex offender bill

    WASHINGTON - When schools in Nevada recruit teachers, they fingerprint applicants for criminal background checks.
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  • Porter committee gets 4,980 more pages in probe

    WASHINGTON - The Energy Department delivered an additional 4,980 pages to Rep. Jon Porter's subcommittee Wednesday, to fulfill requirements of a subpoena related to Porter's investigation into possible falsified documents at the Yucca Mountain project.
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  • Nevada congressman stunned by devastation

    WASHINGTON - Survivors sat in front of what used to be their homes, now merely wreckage torn apart by water and trees and debris.
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  • Porter tours Guantanamo Bay, says guards fighting terrorism

    WASHINGTON - U.S. prison guards in Guantanamo Bay are helping the war on terrorism, Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., said after visiting the prison in Cuba.
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  • Porter says full documents not received

    WASHINGTON - His staff may have 1,652 pages of Yucca Mountain project documents to begin to review today, but Rep. Jon Porter is still concerned about the pages that are not there.
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  • House Panel Issues Subpoena Tied to Nuclear Waste Plan

    WASHINGTON, July 20 - The House subcommittee that is investigating falsification of research at the government project to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada issued a subpoena to the Energy Department on Wednesday.
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  • Subpoena on the way for DOE, Porter says

    WASHINGTON - A House committee chairman was readying a subpoena as the Department of Energy missed a deadline Monday for supplying Congress with documents for a Yucca Mountain investigation.
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  • Lawmaker vows action on e-mails

    WASHINGTON - A dispute over Yucca Mountain worker e-mails escalated Thursday when a House committee chairman said he will issue a subpoena if the Energy Department does not turn over documents.
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  • Ex-Yucca scientist to face subpoena

    WASHINGTON - A House committee today plans to subpoena a former Yucca Mountain scientist to testify later this month about e-mail messages that discuss document falsification on the nuclear waste project.
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  • Porter Questions Agencies On Food Inspection Duplication

    House Government Reform Federal Workforce Subcommittee Chairman Jon Porter, R-Nev., blasted the heads of four federal agencies who oversee food inspection for not doing enough to streamline the program, which Porter said has numerous -- and seemingly nonsensical -- duplications.
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  • Porter's House panel to hire investigator

    WASHINGTON - A House subcommittee announced plans Tuesday to hire a full-time investigator to scrutinize controversial Yucca Mountain e-mail messages and analyze management practices in the nuclear waste repository program.
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  • Porter wants Yucca e-mailers to go public

    WASHINGTON - The Interior Department does not want three federal scientists who exchanged e-mails about falsifying documents on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to testify before a congressional panel, but Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., hopes they will come forward on their own.
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  • House panel issues Yucca e-mails

    E-mails from U.S. Geological Survey hydrologists working on a proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada describe "deliberate failures to follow quality assurance procedures" that may create "substantial vulnerability for the program," according to a portion of an Energy Department memo released Friday by Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev.
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  • Porter requests falsified papers regarding Yucca

    WASHINGTON - Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., has asked the Energy and Interior departments to turn in all alleged falsified documents related to the Yucca Mountain project to his House subcommittee by the end of the month.
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  • Porter to chair panel

    WASHINGTON - Rep. Jon Porter said Friday he will have authority to review Energy Department contracts for the Yucca Mountain Project as the new chairman of a House civil service subcommittee.
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2008

  • AN OPEN LETTER TO SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI

    House Republicans are continuing to fight on the House Floor for increased production of American Energy. So far not a single Democrat has cared enough to come back to Washington to deal with this crisis. Congressman Porter calls on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat Congress, to bring us back into session so that Congress can vote on proposals that will increase American-made energy.

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  • PORTER ANNOUNCES UPCOMING "MOBILE OFFICE" HOURS

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