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Senator asks USGS to keep critical-minerals work nonpartisan during Energy committee hearing
Summary
Senator (unnamed) asked a U.S. Geological Survey scientist (unnamed) at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to pledge that the agency would not favor "blue states" over "red states" if grant funding were reduced.
Senator (unnamed) asked a U.S. Geological Survey scientist (unnamed) at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to commit that, if funding cuts force the agency to reduce grant support, it would not “pick blue states over red states.”
The senator posed the concern directly: “Will you promise me this? If you once you get in there and the cuts are made and there are gonna be significant cuts to you, including cuts to grant funding, that when you whatever little funds that you do have for grant…
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