Word: domenici
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...again Stockman's mastery of his job compensated for the controversy he caused, and the announcement of his departure was the cue for a bipartisan chorus of praise. "He was the only one who really knew the numbers," said Congressman Tony Coelho, a California Democrat. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called him "the most effective OMB Director we've ever had."[*] Even the Washington Post's editorialists, often critical of Stockman's cuts, commended him "for a kind of intellectual and moral integrity that is rarely found in national public life." Stockman was bemused...
Such tales certainly did little to assuage the chagrin, even anger, that the Republicans felt about the President's undercutting them on the Social Security freeze. New Mexico's Domenici, who was not invited to the Oak Tree reception even though he chairs the Senate Budget Committee, called it "a terrible blow." Said another Senate source: "It was the Oak Tree meeting where they sawed off the limb Pete Domenici was on." Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said the arrangement amounted to "surrendering to the deficit." Growled Iowa's Charles Grassley, one of 22 Republican Senators up for re-election...
...past few weeks U.S. regulators have begun processing an application to construct the $1.8 billion plant, which has strong backing from powerful state and federal officials, including Republican Pete Domenici, who is chairman of the Senate Energy Committee. URENCO , an Anglo-Dutch-German consortium, hopes to build in New Mexico as part of Louisiana Energy Services, or LES, an alliance that includes the big American firms Exelon, Duke and Entergy, as well as Cameco, a uranium mining company and Westinghouse, a nuclear fuel manufacturer. If it is built, the plant would produce fuel for nuclear power generation...
...this point, however, approval for the New Mexico project rests with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a federal agency which reviews technical aspects such as the reliability of the plant's enrichment equipment, but not national security implications. The review process normally takes about three years, but Senator Domenici has promised to introduce legislation in Congress that would cut that to two years or less. Domenici's proposal would also make approval of the plant more likely by limiting review of the plant's environmental impact, truncating the appeals process for those who object to the plant and allowing...
...which banned after 1990 the burning of natural gas by power plants to generate electricity. The reasoning: because that fuel was in short supply and was most widely used to heat homes--it goes to half of all residences--it should be preserved for that purpose. Pete Domenici, the Republican Senator from New Mexico, told his colleagues that year, "Almost since we found natural gas we have been busy finding ways to abuse it, waste it, literally throw it away on uses that we are now finding are absolutely the wrong thing to do, and basic among those that...