Pete Domenici

If we didn't have the President we had at that point, we would already be building interim storage some place and it wouldn't have been the least bit dangerous to anybody.

There is a provision in the energy bill, however, that would vest authority with the Department of the Interior.

We're trying to stop the flow of plutonium, got a big program going, highly enriched uranium, we've bought a bunch of it from them.

I believe more should be done to protect against nuclear proliferation, not less.

I would greatly appreciate it if you would visit Sandia and spend some time with the scientists associated with Z and would be willing to visit the facility.

I tell you, I'm going to continue to make the point and try to make the proposition wherever I can that the United States must get on with this.

Well, the fact that we've started at nothing and put these things in is a good thing to repeat, but it's pretty pathetic when you note that most of them were things everybody knew we needed.

We were going to make the NIH, National Institute of Health, double in 10 years.

Here we sit with everybody telling us the counterpart is science, right, that without basic science, pretty soon the NIH, with all of its work, is going to be without the talent that's needed to back up the medical people.

Senator Domenici. Just a couple more. This one has to do with Senator Craig and I.

It's not just strictly what's going on in your State, and we all need each other.

I think wind turbines are aesthetically beautiful, but that's me.