GOP lawmakers behind National Nuclear Security Administration reform language in this year's House version of the Fiscal Year 2013 Defense Authorization Act are chafing at pushback from Department of Energy officials, and a Congressional aide suggested this week that if DOE officials continued to oppose the reform efforts, lawmakers would go even further next year. "The House tried to take a measured step to reform the NNSA without making big organizational changes," a Congressional aide told NW&M Monitor. "But, if those reasonable reforms are scuttled by the DOE bureaucracy this year, then the next step will likely be to begin to move NNSA out of DOE altogether."
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