[Pacg] Congress on Verge of Approving $25B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Reactors

[Carolina 1961]

*URGENT!*
*Congress may vote on appropriations/nuclear loan guarantees **Tuesday
night!*

*ACT NOW! Stop $25 billion in nuclear loan guarantees!*

Friends,

We are hearing today that there is behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the
House and Senate appropriations committees to approve a giant loan guarantee
package in the omnibus appropriations bill, and that this bill could reach
the House floor as early as Tuesday night. The Senate would then vote on the
bill as early as Wednesday. According to some reports, the appropriators are
considering as much as $45 Billion in loan guarantees for energy projects,
with $25 Billion of that being allocated for new nuclear reactors.

This is the worst type of legislation. Not only would it pay for the Iraq
war in exchange for a few billion dollars in domestic projects, but it is
being done almost covertly, in a mammoth spending bill that virtually no
Congress member would actually have the chance to read before voting. We
need to let Congress know this type of spending bill, with these types of
priorities, is simply unacceptable.

Your actions kept the nuclear loan guarantees out of the House energy bill.
Now we all need to act again, louder and stronger than ever.

Everyone: *Please call both of your Senators and your House representative
on Tuesday*—Republican, Democrat, Independent. Every member needs to hear
the message: *NO TAXPAYER LOAN GUARANTEES FOR NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS. Period.*

*Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121*
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*Thank you for all you do!*
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*Source:*
nirsnet at nirs.org
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