Graham Puts Hold on Energy Nominee Over Nuclear Facility Cuts
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Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, is blocking a vote on the nomination of Ernest Moniz to be energy secretary over proposed funding cuts to a nuclear processing facility in his home state.
The U.S. Energy Department’s budget requested $503 million in fiscal year 2014, down from $667 million in 2012, for a program that includes a plant being built in South Carolina to convert weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants.