Weapons Complex Monitor Vol. 31 No. 17
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March 17, 2014

NUCLEAR WEAPONS LABS GET SPOTLIGHT IN NEW MEXICO SENATE RACE

By ExchangeMonitor

The topic of New Mexico’s two nuclear weapons laboratories is becoming a hot topic in the race for Jeff Bingaman’s Senate seat, the Albuquerque Journal said yesterday. A spokesman for Republican candidate Heather Wilson blasted Democratic candidate Martin Heinrich for supporting the Fiscal Year 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations Act earlier this month, which does not include funding for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement-Nuclear Facility, suggesting that he was voting to cut 1,000 jobs at the lab. “New Mexico needs to elect a fighter to the United States Senate—someone who will stand up for jobs at our bases and laboratories,” the paper quoted Wilson spokesman Christopher Sanchez as saying. Heinrich’s campaign told the Journal that he strongly supported the construction project and voted for a failed amendment to restore funding for the project. Heinrich also voted for the FY2013 Defense Authorization Act, which restores funding for the project.

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