WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito issued the following op-ed:
Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, led a hearing (https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=A5972D3C-A657-42F4-BB91-2C2C6F570BD3) on the nominations of Lee Beaman to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Douglas Weaver to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
During the hearing, Chairman Capito asked Douglas Weaver about increasing regulatory certainty at the NRC and his intentions for the management of NRC staff, budget and operations. Additionally, Chairman Capito asked Lee Beaman about energy affordabi...