March 17, 2014

HOUSE VOTE ON MANHATTAN PROJECT PARK BILL EXPECTED TODAY

By ExchangeMonitor
A roll-call vote on a House bill to create a Manhattan Project National Historical Park is expected today after the bill was debated under a suspension of House rules yesterday. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) who opposes the proposed national park, successfully called for a roll call vote rather than a voice vote. “The bomb is about graveyards, not national parks,” he said. Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) who authored the bill and is sponsoring it along with Reps. Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.), countered that creating the new national park would allow schoolchildren into facilities such as Hanford’s B Reactor to see the lengths the nation went to during World War II to preserve freedom. The bill would designate parts of Hanford, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge as areas of a multi-site national park.

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