it is irresponsible to just decide that we should cut any of these programs in the name of poverty reduction.
In New Mexico, senior citizens beg to go back to work because $10 in food stamps was not enough to make ends meet.
But you would agree that we ought to be careful about just cutting those families off food stamps.
I think we still have negative job growth.
I am excited for today's hearing, and we both plan to use what we hear to strengthen the first real shot at updating this broken law.
Thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member Murkowski for holding this hearing today.
Earlier this year, I introduced S. 753 with Senator Tom Udall and Senator John Cornyn to reflect a 3-party agreement.
If we move so aggressively forward on storage and we don't address the steps needed to get to a permanent geological repository those commun...
I think that's something that I've heard consistently over and over again from the community of Los Alamos and the surrounding communities, ...
I have committed myself to really engaging representatives of the rural communities to figure out how can we better touch and provide resour...
We really appreciate you coming and we are going to move on to our second panel now.
I think that this has been very helpful and I think it is going to help the two of us work with the other Senators...
No, no, no. Thank you.
We will work closely with you on the reauthorization and look forward to many productive years ahead.
Could you talk a little bit about how that works and do you see any way that we can increase that leveraging?
That would be fine. Without objection. Please.
That is why I am proud to be a sponsor of the BUILD Act that the Chairman referred to.
The Subcommittee will come to order. We welcome you to today's meeting of the Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health.
