Twenty-three Senators - 13 Republicans (Voinovich, Craig, Crapo, Lugar, Bond, Talent, Alexander, Chafee, Warner, Burr, Isakson, DeWine, Smith) and 10 Democrats (Bingaman, Obama, Wyden, Reed, Kohl, Jeffords, Bayh, Kerry, Clinton, Bill Nelson) - sent a letter to the Committee on Appropriations, requesting support in the Fiscal Year 2007 budget for Department of Energy university nuclear energy programs.