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sltrib.com - 2/9/2009
Bennett defends $50 billion stimulus insert - Salt Lake Tribune
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Washington An environmental group is planning television ads in Utah to skewer Sen. Bob Bennett for inserting into the massive stimulus package what they say are $50 billion in loans to the nuclear industry. Bennett pushed a provision into the stimulus bill to grant the money to low-carbon ...

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Wonk Room:  ‘Bacon-Trimmers’ Nelson And Collins Protect $50 Billion In Nuclear Pork

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Al Giordano: Speaker Pelosi: Here's $50 Billion to Restore to the Stimulus in Conference

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‘Bacon-Trimmers’ Nelson And Collins Protect $50 Billion In Nuclear Pork
Wonk Room — ... As the Wonk Room has previously written, the line item inserted by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) for $50 billion in misleadingly named “clean energy” loan guarantees will go ...

Al Giordano: Speaker Pelosi: Here's $50 Billion to Restore to the Stimulus in Conference
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Bennett denied to the Salt Lake Tribune that the $50 billion is for nuclear power. "It is not a bailout for the nuclear industry in any sense of the word. It is a method of attracting private capital into renewable energy." ...

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