Nov 21, 2003
And you are not going to pursue any, either through the courts or anything? You are just going to drop it?
Jim Bunning
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Jim Bunning is a former United States Senator from Kentucky, serving from 1999 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Bunning was known for his strong conservative positions and advocacy for fiscal responsibility. Before his political career, he was a professional baseball player, notably a pitcher in Major League Baseball, where he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. Bunning's tenure in the Senate included a focus on issues such as energy policy and workers' compensation reform, often criticizing the Department of Energy's handling of compensation programs for workers.
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Nov 21, 2003
Obviously, the Department of Energy does not believe that that is that kind of a program.
Nov 21, 2003
One is to cut off their money and make them a nonexistent Department if they do things like that.
Nov 21, 2003
The only point is that the DOE serving as a 'willing payor,' quote unquote, raises a very profound question...
Nov 21, 2003
This ended with the historic initiative culminating in Congress passing this legislation on a bipartisan, virtually unanimous basis.
Nov 21, 2003
No, I do not want the Department of Energy involved in it. I am going to get it out of there as soon as I can.
Nov 21, 2003
As currently interpreted, it cannot work. The Department of Energy is neither structured nor is interpreting the statute to make it work as it might have.
Nov 21, 2003
We have to have some solution to that, and we would like your suggestions on how we can get that done.