Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) today foreshadowed what may be a bitter fight on the Senate floor over language in the Senate's fiscal year 2001 defense authorization bill that restricts the energy secretary from making any organizational changes to the newly created National Nuclear Security Administration. During a nomination hearing for Air Force Gen. John Gordon, Levin said the language "is an unprecedented restriction on an agency administrator," and pointed out that the language is not yet law. Gordon is President...
