Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) has dropped his hold on the nomination of Monica Regalbuto to serve as the next Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management. The move could ease Regalbuto’s path to confirmation in the last days of the current Congress by allowing the Senate to approve her nomination through unaminous consent. Barrasso chose to drop his hold after receiving sought-after answers from the Department of Energy concerning DOE’s uranium transfer policy and the last prepared Secretarial determination on uranium transfers, according to a Barrasso spokeswoman.