Do the three of you believe that the administration does have a clearly articulated approach to the 123 agreements?
I am concerned about the administration's current policy or, rather, lack of consistent policy toward the negotiation of civil nuclear coope...
The 'gold standard,' where nations forswear domestic ENR capabilities, was finalized under this administration with the completion of the ci...
The absence of a consistent policy weakens our nuclear nonproliferation efforts, and sends a mixed message to those nations we seek to preve...
Why would we not in every single case begin with a strong definition of what our gold standard is?
That would be fine.
Their acceptance of enrichment and reprocessing, E&R, capabilities in some but not all new agreements with countries where no such capabilit...
Would it be inappropriate for us to vote up or down if you violate the gold standard?
We have had some conversations about this in the past, I know in prior authorizations, but it would appear that as we look at ECAs around th...
I do hope that, you know, as we move ahead, we will figure out a way to ensure that there is access to credit in an appropriate level, but a...
We have to address those conversations immediately if we're going to make any difference in the conversation that we're having.
We need to align our payment streams with our current technology.
I have complimented Chairman Harkin both here and on other occasions for the way he has conducted these hearings on higher education.
It's been my experience here that if you get States involved with the Federal Government, you usually get more than just one and one equals ...
you ought to be fired
Should we take this $1.1 billion and turn it into 180,000 or 200,000 Pell grants for students?
Are we spending that $1.1 billion most effectively as a way to help low-income students?
My own view is that since we've reauthorized it eight times since 1965 that this would be a good time to start from scratch, at least for pa...
