House Rules Committee Rules Out Yucca amendments

According to informed Capitol Hill sources, the House Rules Committee has apparently ruled out any consideration of Yucca related amendments when the House meets to consider the FY2010 Energy and Water Development bill, H.R. 3183.  Historoically, the House has always voted overwhemingly in favor of the project and House Democratic leadership may  have wanted to avoid a fight and a potentially embrassing defeat.  The last House floor action on a Yucca amendent was the Porter (R-NV) to the FY2008 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill which sought to strip the bill of all Yucca funding. The Porter amendent was defeated by 351to 80.