I appreciate the witnesses. I just wanted to make an announcement that, in an effort to be constructive, Congressman Pau...
I personally would like to, you know, eliminate sequestration entirely.
This is not a foreign threat; this is a self-inflicted wound.
we must figure out pathways out of poverty into good-paying jobs
the cuts that are taking place just in that bill alone, Americans will lose thousands and thousands of jobs, and more pe...
But would you not agree that it is only minimum linkage.
We would therefore need, at least, one more new repository.
I want to thank you and Senator Murkowski, Senator Feinstein and the Secretary for helping with the bill.
Let me shift gears a little bit to what would happen if we don't have nuclear power.
It would be appropriate to say, I think, that that was a main thrust of the bipartisan commission.
One should be for a bill that finds some reasonable way to create new repositories.
We can negotiate our own linkage, can't we?
So that means if New Mexico or Oregon or Alaska or Tennessee don't want one of these repositories, we won't--or Nevada.
If the Congress were to decide that a priority for us nationally were to fully fund that, and for a shorter period of ti...
So, how rapidly do you need to catch up? You wouldn't do all that in 1 or 2 years. You would do it over, if you had the ...
It's ridiculous for us to be borrowing money, and the Federal Government that is so heavily indebted, to build roads in ...
If there were money in the Land and Water Conservation Fund, I think I'd agree with you.
I've always thought, and this goes back a long time, we don't have any business using appropriated dollars to build road...
