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Re: Reid vows to block possible energy pick
Why not? - it would probably save her alot of work.
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Tom Savin
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:21:28
William F Miller/MILLERWF/CC01/INEEL/US wrote:
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>I'd certainly like to see Ruth's resume.
>Would it be OK if she posted it on the list?
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>"ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu on
>12/20/2000 11:16:44 AM
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>Please respond to radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
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>Sent by: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
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>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
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>Subject: Re: Reid vows to block possible energy pick
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>In this vein (and I hope it is OK to put this on RADSAFE):
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>The Bush transition team has asked me for (and received) my resume. The
>position I am apparently being considered for is one of the Assistant
>Secretary of Energy positions, or maybe EPA. If (and only if) any
>RADSAFERs
>think I would be a good choice, please write your Members of Congress on my
>behalf (I would need Congressional support). If anyone wants my resume,
>please write me privately.
>
>I certainly hope this request is not offensive to anyone. If it is, please
>accept my apologies in advance.
>
>Ruth Weiner
>ruth_weiner@msn.com
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mercado, Don <don.mercado@lmco.com>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:20 AM
>Subject: Reid vows to block possible energy pick
>
>
>>Here's how we can make a difference. Call/write/email Bush and urge him to
>>appoint J. Bennett Johnson.
>>
>>> December 20, 2000
>>> Las Vegas Review-Journal
>>>
>>> YUCCA MOUNTAIN: Reid vows to block possible energy pick
>>> Louisiana Democrat proponent of nuclear power industry
>>>
>>>
>>> DONREY WASHINGTON BUREAU
>>>
>>>
>>> WASHINGTON -- Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Tuesday he would try to
>block
>>>
>>> Senate confirmation of J. Bennett Johnston, the former Louisiana
>senator
>>> and
>>> nuclear power champion who is being mentioned as a possible energy
>>> secretary
>>> under incoming President George W. Bush.
>>>
>>> When Reid saw Johnston mentioned in a newspaper report as a possible
>>> member
>>> of the Bush Cabinet, "the name leaped out so hard I couldn't wait to
>get
>>> to
>>> the office this morning to call him to see if this was a serious
>matter."
>>>
>>> "He told me he was thinking about it," Reid recalled. "I told him, `I
>>> like
>>> you a lot, but I'm going to do everything I can to prevent it.' "
>>>
>>> Johnston, 68, a Democrat who served in the Senate from 1973 to 1996,
>was
>>> closely associated with energy interests and was the major booster of
>>> plans
>>> to locate a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles
>>> northwest
>>> of Nevada.
>>>
>>> As chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, he
>was
>>> considered the engine behind what came to be known as the 1987 "Screw
>>> Nevada" bill that designated Yucca Mountain as the only site the
>>> government
>>> would study for a repository.
>>>
>>> Reid said he put his staff to work on the matter, put in calls to other
>>> lawmakers and began Tuesday to build a coalition of environmentalists
>who
>>>
>>> share his view of Johnston.
>>>
>>> "We want to nip this one in the bud," Reid said.
>>>
>>> "I'm very distressed to hear that Bennett Johnston is a candidate for
>>> energy
>>> secretary. It would be a declaration of war on the environment and
>>> environmentalists across the country," said Michael Mariotte, executive
>>> director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service.
>>>
>>> Johnston is partner of a Washington lobbying firm, Johnston and
>>> Associates,
>>> whose clients include the Nuclear Energy Institute, Entergy Corp., SBC
>>> Communications, Northrop Grumman and the University of New Orleans,
>>> according to Washington Representatives, a lobbyist guidebook.
>>>
>>> Johnston did not respond to calls for comment on Tuesday.
>>>
>>> Bush has said he plans to have Democrats in his Cabinet, and last week
>>> discussed the energy post with Sen. John Breaux, D-La. Breaux turned
>him
>>> down but recommended Johnston, according to the New Orleans
>>> Times-Picayune.
>>>
>>> "If (Bush) is responding by appointing Bennett Johnston, we should all
>be
>>>
>>> afraid," Reid said.
>>>
>>> Others who have been mentioned as possible energy secretaries include
>>> Sen.
>>> Slade Gorton, R-Wash., who was defeated for re-election last month, and
>>> Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat who supports drilling in the
>Arctic
>>> National Wildlife Refuge.
>>>
>>> But on a radio talk show on Tuesday, Knowles laughed at the idea and
>said
>>> he
>>> has plenty of work to do in Alaska, according to his spokesman Bob
>King.
>>> Knowles said on the radio program he had not been contacted by the Bush
>>> transition team.
>>>
>>> Reid said he believed Gorton is not interested in the job.
>>>
>>> Another person mentioned was Don Evans, a Bush friend, his presidential
>>> campaign manager and chief executive of Tom Brown Inc., a Denver-based
>>> oil
>>> and gas company with an office in Midland, Texas. But Evans was
>expected
>>> to
>>> be named head of the Commerce Department.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This story is located at:
>>> http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2000/Dec-20-Wed-2000/news/15073682.html
>>>
>>>
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