How do you all deal with the moral issues and the ethical issues of leaving those that are getting the placebo--knowing that they are in a terminal status, as opposed to trying to shift them over?

OK. Talk to me about the internal conversation about acceptable risk.

I would be glad to be able to get that, because that may broaden out and accelerate some of the process as well.

I think you have--you are an exceptional public servant in your skill and your dedication and your bipartisanship.

I know 12 cardinals and 12 ranking members that are convinced that their allocations are too low.

It was a tremendous help to us after the tornadoes in 2013.

Well, no question in my mind it is a worthwhile use of the money...

You would be amazed at the number of very conservative Members that I have that come and visit with me about your programs...

How do you track, at this point, research that would be done by the public sector and research that would be done only by us?

Okay, so FERC first and then DOE, correct? So that has been a quick process. It has not been an issue?

I see a lot of these things as functions of a system that has been historically underfunded.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And, again, I want to thank you, and the Ranking Member, and your predecessor, Mr. Simpson, for really working hard to try and bring this program to an appropriate and successful conclusion.

This is one of the areas I want us to provide more oversight as a committee to be able to ask just the basic questions.

I want to commend you for doing it.

We have talked a couple of times before about the 2014 water bill that put into it a request to the Corps to say give us an inventory that is not needed--this was the quote--'not needed for the mission of the Corps of Engineers.'

we should not make nuclear power a primary solution, or one of the primary solutions, to dealing with that problem

solving the nuclear waste stalemate is something Senator Feinstein and I are dedicated to

If there are additional authorities that are needed on that, we just need to know