Judd Gregg: “We are willing to accept this amendment. I ask unanimous consent the yeas and nays be vitiated and the amendment be…”

It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.

Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.

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

Your careers may end happily before the reckoning. Your reelections may not be threatened by your inaction. But your consciences should be.