Durbin questions Secretary of Energy about FutureGen

Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman faced some tough questions Thursday during a Senate subcommittee meeting about FutureGen.

Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois interrogated him about the reasons the Energy Department restructured the clean-coal project. Durbin was a guest of the Energy and Water Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee.

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