I am trying to get to the bottom of the question of whether this budget increases spending over the President's number. The Senator from North Dakota has represented it does not. Yet Senator after Senator from the other side of the aisle has come to the floor and told us how much spending has increased.
Discussing budget spending levels during a Senate debate.
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Our Nation's nuclear power plants are vital national assets that provide reliable, carbon-free electricity.
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.
Without the 99 nuclear power plants that operate in 30 States, carbon emissions from the U.S. electric sector would be approximately 25 percent higher.
If all the nuclear power plants were closed in this country, it's the equivalent of adding 115 million cars to the road.