Congress’ Budget Crunch Yields Blessings & Miseries for U.S. Mining

(Before It's News)

Two new mining projects may have their futures enhanced, astonishingly, by the NDAA up for consideration by the U.S. Senate.

by Dorothy Kosich
Mine Web

RENO (Mineweb) – As Congress worked on a $1.1 trillion measure to keep the U.S. government operating past midnight Thursday, two mining company land exchanges impacting Arizona and Nevada projects had been attached to the Department of Defense budget scheduled to be reviewed by the U.S. Senate, perhaps, as early as today.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, told reporters that he expected the full Senate to take up a joint fiscal year 2015 defense policy bill late today. The House had already passed the $585 billion defense authorization bill on December 4th.

More than 60 lawmakers are either retiring, lost their elections, or will assume new elected offices in January 2015.

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