Every year we have a fight over how much is enough for Yucca and we all with bated breath wonder, is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) going to really license them, aren't they?

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

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

I'm discouraged by the fact that the advanced fuel concepts initiative was cut.

I'm disappointed to learn that nuclear R&D budget has been cut by $34 million, a 26 percent reduction.

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.

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, thank you. Thank you to all three of you and for the record, I'd like to close with two things.

I am very concerned. With that going and the threat of nuclear proliferation, what's the basis for reducing funding for this account.

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

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.

The F-117 Stealth Fighter has provided the United States with a low-observable first strike capability for nearly 20 years.