Do you believe that the development of new enrichment capacity is sufficiently important to the United States, as far as our energy security, that the development of this facility by Urenco should be encouraged and facilitated by the Department of Energy?
Senator Domenici questions the importance of new enrichment capacity for U.S. energy security.
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You cannot imagine being on my side of the aisle now, where I cannot do what you do.
I believe that that has to happen. I guess the rest is, I hope it happens, and the sooner the better, in my mind.
Well, I would just say that, sometimes when we are working on trying to solve this fiscal problem, the recognition that a long-term fix is what is needed puts many people in the position that they do not know how you do that and do it now.
It cries out for flexibility to save money, to do things right, to prevent harming people when they do not have to be.