Voluntary is not working so good. From my standpoint, this is something that needs to be addressed.
Seven years later, we have virtually done nothing in terms of some quick fixes that would cost $100,000 per transformer.
So it was just ignored. It was something pretty scary, and we did not want to acknowledge it, so we put our head in the ...
Let us not sit back and go, 'Well, if you cannot protect everything, protect nothing.' Let us start protecting things.
So 7 years later, we have not developed national and regional restoration plans.
But we can protect ourselves against something like the Carrington Effect, the 1921 effect, and we can do that for a rel...
Trust me, now I am all about let us not grow the Federal Government, let us not overregulate.
just government does not work, and I think this is pretty obvious.
we have let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and we have allowed governmental dysfunction to prevent us from even d...
It is just a shame, it is just unconscionable we did not.
I believe in exploring innovation in higher education, but coupled with guardrails to protect our most vulnerable studen...
Some of these transformers are 2 years out in terms of lead time, correct?
the dangers posed by EMP and GMD have been well known really for decades but made public now for over 10 years, and we l...
And we have known absolutely this for decades, publicly since at least 2004 with these EMP Commissions, and we have done...
This agreement, without question, has the most grave outcomes of any agreement negotiated by this government.
It is 100 percent certainty that this will occur. Maybe not tomorrow, 10 percent every decade, but it will occur.
But let us at least protect ourselves from GMD in a more robust fashion where it does not cost very much.
a U.S. Senator from the State of Wisconsin
