Pete Domenici

I don't believe we're going to be able to negotiate anything for a lesser amount of money.

But I tell you they're making some bad mistakes of judgment in their recommendations and this is one of them.

I can tell you, you can't say it, but I can, I've had to go to the President on items of significance for this country when OMB didn't care what the situation was.

I believe these settlements ought to be approved by our committee, and I'm going to ask that we do it in spite of the opposition of the Administration.

I changed the NRC's priorities in a 1998 meeting with the NRC Chair in which I threatened to cut the agency's budget by one-third if the NRC did not modify its adversarial attitude toward the industry.

I rise today to introduce, on behalf of myself and Senators Sessions, Murkowski, and Landrieu, a bill that establishes the foundation for a sustainable nuclear fuel cycle for the U.S. A sustainable nuclear fuel cycle is the key to nuclear…

fellow Senators, I have spoken extensively over the past several months about the growing threat of our dependence on foreign oil. Two weeks ago, we were reminded of the threat by new trade deficit numbers showing a $4.4 billion deficit…

Let's look at what we voted on yesterday. The Democrats sought to increase taxes on American business competing with foreign nations for a global commodity. They tell us this tax is the solution because the oil companies are making too…

Last night I spoke to a group of energy experts and gave them the same warning I have been giving since the start of this year in a series of speeches on the Senate floor. That is that the United States faces a grave and growing threat to…

Mr. President, the American people are clamoring for relief at the pump. In 1 year we have seen a 16-point increase in the percentage of Americans who seek more exploration and production of oil and gas in this country. Today, according to…

Now, Senators today should have been--under anyone's understanding of the dilemma we are in with the price of oil scaring the American people to death, the amount of money we are sending out of our country to meet our energy needs, it is…

For something like 40 years, we will be using crude oil, our own or others, because we cannot get rid of the current mode of transportation any quicker. Cars will be cars, and we will be using them because we cannot wean them off the…