This is the day to get in the fight so that come November, we have enough people in office who will protect the rights of a woman to choose.

I am going to be organizing, obviously, my Senate colleagues to send that message to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

the NRC has essentially cut itself off from any ability to mitigate, direct, or understand the site specific issues around water discharge.

Pilgrim in Massachusetts is at the top of the list.

You cannot, no one can point to a single environmental impact that this facility would have on the host community.

We will be bringing that message back to Washington, DC.

No one has ever done this before in congressional history.

What I have found over the years, Dr. Singh, is that you may be making personal commitments right now, and don't worry about it.

I don't think that is going to be acceptable to the people here in Plymouth.

Let's put a process in place that doesn't necessarily elicit this level of public skepticism because it has been transparent.

the proposal will allow for three times as much water released in 1 year as Pilgrim has ever released in the past.

I appreciate that, too, because this is my 45th year in Congress.

The decision was political, that they were going to stick the people in Nevada with the nuclear waste site.

What protections are there to ensure that Holtec doesn't cut corners to do the lowest cost decommissioning possible?

We are in a period of great tension with the Russians right now.

Well, but you still don't have to formally approve the plan. You don't have that responsibility.

Has any plant ever been told that it needs a new NEPA review?

I think the people who are going to be attending the public hearing have a right to know what the answers to those questions are before you have the public hearing.