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  • House Passes Bill to Reduce Gas Prices
    Jun 21, 2012 - The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 4480, the Domestic Energy and Jobs Act by a vote of 248-163. It aims to create long-term domestic energy solutions for the United States. Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson supported the measure. H.R. 4480, the Strategic Energy Production Act of 2012, ... More
  • House Funding Bill Restores Nuclear Energy Funding
    Jun 6, 2012 - Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today praised the work of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development in crafting a bill that reverses Obama Administration cuts to nuclear energy programs and continues progress toward the development of new nuclear technologies, including th... More
  • Simpson Questions Office of Nuclear Energy Funding and NRC’s Management
    Mar 7, 2012 - Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson challenged the two arms of the government’s nuclear energy organizations, the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), when they came to testify before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee. The FY13 budget request for... More
  • Simpson Promotes Nuclear Energy in House Hearing
    Feb 28, 2012 - Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today questioned Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu about the energy future of our country. Chu testified before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee during a hearing on the president’s FY13 budget proposal for DOE. Simpson, who is a senior mem... More
  • Simpson Holds Hearing on Department of Interior Budget Proposal
    Feb 16, 2012 - Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson, who chairs the House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, today held his first subcommittee hearing of the year, as Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar testified before the subcommittee regarding the Department of Interior’s FY2013 budget request. Durin... More
  • Co-Chairs of Nuclear Issues Working Group Issue Statement on Approval of Nuclear Reactor
    Feb 9, 2012 - U.S. Representatives Jason Altmire (PA-04), Judy Biggert (IL-13), and Mike Simpson (ID-02), Co-Chairs of the House Nuclear Issues Working Group, today released the following statement on the announcement that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) approved the first new nuclear power plant permit i... More
  • House Funding Bill Supports Nuclear Energy
    Jun 2, 2011 - Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today praised the work of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development in crafting a bill that increases funding for nuclear energy and continues progress toward the development of new nuclear technologies, including those under development at ... More
  • Simpson Blasts NRC Handling of Yucca Mountain
    Jun 1, 2011 - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today held a hearing entitled, “The Department of Energy’s Role in Managing Civilian Radioactive Waste.” Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson was asked to testify about the Administration’s attempt to terminate the Yucca Mountain nu... More
  • Simpson Addresses Reactor Safety and Yucca Mountain
    Mar 31, 2011 - Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today chaired the House Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee hearing discussing the budget for Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the budget for Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Both the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Office of Nuclear Energy,... More
  • Nuclear Research Agreement Is Positive Step Forward
    Jan 27, 2011 - I am writing to respond to the comments of former Governor Cecil Andrus and the Idaho Statesman’s editorial board regarding the recent agreement between the State of Idaho and the Department of Energy (DOE) over future shipments of very small quantities of spent nuclear fuel for research purposes. W... More
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