The U.S. House of Representatives defeated two proposals to prevent development of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) offered two amendments to the fiscal 2015 Energy-Water appropriations bill “to block the potential facility,” according to The Hill. 

One amendment, rejected 96-326, would have deleted a section of the bill preventing the use of funds to “irrevocably remove the possibility that Yucca Mountain may be a repository option in the future.”

A road leading to Yucca Mountain, Nevada, circa 2008.

Flickr: Cyndy Sims Parr

Titus’s second amendment, defeated 75-344, “would eliminate all $150 million allocated for nuclear waste disposal and instead divert the funds toward reducing the deficit.”

Titus, who argued that Nevada is “not a wasteland,” said the entire fund “would ultimately be used toward developing Yucca Mountain.”

U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii voted in the majority both times.

Hawaii’s other congresswoman, Colleen Hanabusa, was not present for the votes, as she is campaigning back home for the U.S. Senate.

Her opponent, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, is also in Hawaii this week and has missed votes as well in Washington.