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.
Domenici discusses his influence on NRC's priorities regarding the nuclear industry.
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We are now talking about something different. We are talking about the ratio of debt-to-GDP.
Together, you go with a tax proposal and a proposal that reforms Medicare. When you combine the two, you get bipartisan support.
I think that is the case. We are going to go negative. We are going to lose jobs.
If indeed you intend to have a bipartisan solution, then obviously you have to do some of the things we are talking about, some give-and-take.