Judd Gregg: “So there are 8 minutes and 45 seconds. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa.”

In the end, you have to pay the debt ceiling because otherwise the government can't function, and the effect of that would be catastrophic.

We cannot afford to take nuclear energy for granted.

Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.

The Simpson-Bowles Commission...came to the conclusion that on our present path this Nation goes bankrupt.