The Senate on Wednesday afternoon unveiled its updated budget resolution that sets a blueprint for passing Trump administration priorities, retaining a proposal to boost defense spending by $150 billion.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chair of the Budget Committee, said President Trump is “fully on board” with the upper chamber’s new resolution, which also includes raising the debt ceiling by $5 trillion and making the 2017 tax cuts instituted by the first Trump administration permanent.
Senate GOP leadership is aiming to bring up the measure for a vote this week, setting up the House to potentially take up the measure next week before Congress goes on a two-week recess. This article was originally published by Exchange Monitor-affiliate Defense Daily.
Amentum, based in Chantilly, Va., will discuss its quarterly financial results during a conference call with Wall Street analysts starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time on May 7.
A link to the audio feed of the earnings call will be available on the investor relations section of the company website.
Texas-based Fluor has promoted a long-time company manager, Tracey Cook, to become its new chief human resources officer effective April 7.
Cook is succeeding Stacy Dillow, who is leaving Fluor to pursue a new opportunity, Fluor said in a Monday press release. Dillow is leaving April 11, according to a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.
Cook has been with Fluor for 35 years. She has served in senior management roles in finance as well as the president of a former Fluor equipment subsidiary, AMECO. Fluor recently sold AMECO.
The Department of Energy’s $8-billion Office of Environmental Management last week posted an updated organizational chart that now shows longtime federal supervisor Dae Chung as the acting head of the branch.
Chung’s formal title, according to the chart posted March 26, is acting principal deputy assistant secretary. Chung was made the acting chief a few weeks back by the Donald Trump administration following the departure of Candice Robertson, under the deferred resignation initiative.
Chung is overseeing nuclear cleanup issues at Cold War and Manhattan Project sites pending Senate confirmation of Tim Walsh, a Colorado real estate developer, to head Environmental Management. Walsh was nominated March 10 to be nominated to become Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management or EM-1.
Former Sen. Bennett Johnston (D-La.), a defender of nuclear energy and former chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, died March 25 at age 92..
Johnston was a moderate Democrat who served in the Senate from 1972 to 1997. He started in the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1964, and then the Louisiana Senate in 1967. He ran for the U.S. Senate after losing a race for Louisiana governor by a close margin.
Johnston was either a ranking member or chair of the Energy and Natural Resources committee from 1973 to 1996, during which time the most serious nuclear reactor accident in the United States happened at Three Mile Island Unit 2 in 1979, according to Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. Johnston was also convinced in 1995 by his committee report to slash funding for the Department of Energy’s Hanford site, which he said was too contaminated to funnel money into.