We hope this Congress and certainly this administration, is moving in a new direction again as it relates to nuclear reactors and new passive safe reactors.

I have been able to secure funding for about $800,000 in the omnibus bill that passed a few months ago.

I would urge you to continue to pressure that recalcitrant and sometimes resistant bureaucracy to get with it.

I know you have all been tragically busy since that time, and of course I think all of us are very anxious for the report to be completed and to get our shuttles flying again under all of the conditions that are safe and appropriate.

Slowly but surely, this Congress is shifting a little bit toward the physical sciences again, and I'm very pleased about that.

Well, I would like to see that. It is a short-lived project, but it is certainly one worthy of this country, and one to be celebrated. And we want to see it go forward for all of the public to enjoy.

I think we are going to assume successes in these projects versus the historic problem we have had that we have worked our way through.

this remains an extremely important project for the country.

I must tell you, though, I am disappointed the administration did not get the budget cap adjustment that it was seeking as a part of the budget resolution this year.

Clearly there is a lot of work to be done out there, and we hope we will be able to assist them in getting most of it done.

If it were up to me, Congress would pass legislation establishing priorities for you to follow and let you get on with them.

I am simply going to have to remain and will be, for obvious reasons, a pretty outspoken advocate that that debate occur at least for the West, the Pacific Northwest, in Olympia, Washington, or Boise, Idaho, or Salem, Oregon, and not in…