It is our duty and our responsibility to make sure that this city is placed on solid financial ground.

I sit here today as one who believes that it is important that we continue to maintain and strengthen going forward our reliance on nuclear energy as part of, not all of, but part of our energy needs in this country.

I am one of those people, Mr. Secretary, who always sees the glass as half-full.

Yes. You will hear from Clay Johnson, we have already got one set of standards that have been put forward by this PART review.

If you think you can get it into legislation, I am fine. I just think that is a bridge too far at this point in time.

We thought it was too big of a bite to take, that if we got to this portion of the Federal budget, 25 percent was a good start.

I applaud your willingness to address this issue. This is one of those issues that most people just duck away from.

Senator Moynihan taught me before he left the Senate that we have rarely found a way to change something in government until we find a way to measure it.

We put forward a series of tests in the legislation.

I would suggest that. If others do not want to leave that up to a commission and want to have a more prescriptive nature from Congress, I can see doing that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich, I appreciate your willingness to hold this hearing.

Absolutely. It is not the bigger share of it, as I noted in my presentation. But I think we have a credibility gap for us to be able to take on.

Dr. Nathan, in your book you talk about this concept of shared facilities, which is a intriguing concept.

We have them all over the country.

I mean, that is the challenge, getting the money up front and convincing people that it should be done.

It is up-front money that is the problem.

The reality is, as Senator Landrieu was saying, there is a funding limitation.

Well, we thank you very much. It has been very interesting and very enlightening, and we want to continue to work with you in the future.