
Murray Sends Letter to President in Advance of Budget Release
Senator lays out hopes for budget priorities; urges focus on veterans’, nuclear waste cleanup, port security, healthcare

Senator lays out hopes for budget priorities; urges focus on veterans’, nuclear waste cleanup, port security, healthcare

Bush Administration’s Targeting of Vit Plant as a “Lower Priority Project” Undermined Funding Effort in Congress; $100 Million Cut Could Result in Layoffs, Higher Costs and Missed Construction Milestones

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell today hit back at the Bush Administration’s short-sighted cuts to the Hanford budget as part

No budget number will be available until today, but Murray said the budget could drop from $690 million for fiscal year 2005 to $526 million

Congress is slashing more than $100 million from the budget for a plant to clean up the most dangerous radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear