Pete Domenici: “Your State has. They have done it, along with Texas and a couple of other States. Frankly, before we start giving other…”

“Your State has. They have done it, along with Texas and a couple of other States. Frankly, before we start giving other States resources, I wish they would start making decisions and we would start making them so other States would join. We have to help your State. We have to help you because you are taking the burden, and we are going to try to do something about that. I don't know what we can do because we are stymied by a few things that are intangible, that we don't control--fiscal policy and budget policy and the like. But I want to say it doesn't do very much good to adopt resolutions on this floor and proposals such as are pending here from Senator Cantwell--it doesn't do a bit of good to say these are our goals, let's do them. Flexibility. We don't need that kind of bill if we do what we know we should do. We have not built a nuclear powerplant in two decades plus, while the rest of the world built them. We can talk all we want about why did we use so much natural gas in the powerplants of America. We know why. We didn't want to use anything else. Right? So we used natural gas, even some from offshore, some from your State. We piped it all the way over and burned it in powerplants as though it were coming out and would be here forever. It starts running out, right? So we are going to import it pretty soon. That is the problem. We have been doing that. It is the problem in this bill.…”