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South Carolina senator pushes for nuclear plant funding.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Jim Nesbitt, The Augusta Chronicle, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 29--AIKEN, S.C. -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., promised Monday to mount a campaign of gentle persuasion and arm-twisting to restore money slashed from four major programs counted on to breathe new life and jobs into Savannah River Site.

South Carolina's junior senator also pledged to untangle SRS from a battle of wills between the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that crafted the deep cuts, Rep. David Hobson, R-Ohio, and two federal agencies -- the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy.

"It's going to take a lot of education, a lot of work," Mr. Graham said. "There's something going on in subcommittee we need to get to the...

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