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Second District Republican Congressman Joe Wilson visited Dempsey Wood Products in Orangeburg on Wednesday to get a first-hand look at the impact the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has had on the company's growth.
Parker Dempsey, president of Dempsey Wood Products, along with his father, Ronny Dempsey, vice president of the company, talked with Wilson about the benefits of the act.
The new chairman of the House Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee says he's determined to help increase the size of the military and boost readiness from historic lows under President Donald Trump's plan to expand the force.
Specifically, South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson says he supports the $640 billion Defense Department budget for fiscal 2018 that's being promoted by the chairmen of the Senate and House Armed Services committees, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas).
The $34 billion Energy and Water Appropriations Bill that passed the House recently is by no means perfect legislation.
But there are many important aspects of the bill to cheer about, not least the funding to continue the MOX project at Savannah River Site.
The bipartisan spending package allots $345 million to continue construction for the mixed-oxide fuel fabrication facility for the 2015 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. This temporarily would reverse the Obama administration's plan to put the MOX facility on "cold standby" – a bureaucratic euphemism for termination.
A United States House appropriations committee passed a bill Thursday that, if adopted, would provide $345 million for construction of the Savannah River Site's MOX facility.
The Energy and Water Appropriations bill has been debated this week, with members of the committee offering up various amendments.