SENATORS EYE NUCLEAR SECURITY AGENCY.(MAIN)

Byline: H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans pressed their case Saturday for a reorganization of the Energy Department in response to the continuing controversy over the safeguarding of America's nuclear secrets.

Using the weekly GOP radio address, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., accused the Clinton administration of taking ``half measures'' in dealing with security at nuclear weapons laboratories.

Kyl is one of three GOP senators who have proposed putting nuclear weapons programs under a largely autonomous agency within the Energy Department -- an idea also urged this week by a panel of experts advising the President. …