To think about using windmills when we have nuclear reactors would be like General Scowcroft going to war in sailboats when we had a nuclear...
We are going to work together, Mr. Chairman, with you and others to try to break the stalemate, address the issue and begin to implement the...
This has been very helpful and very, very interesting.
Income inequality, purchasing ability inequality, the middle class and consumer, they have got nowhere to go.
As I said in my opening remarks, whether you are for Yucca Mountain or against Yucca Mountain, we need to break the stalemate.
So our thought with the appropriations bill was, can we take a step or two while we work out the comprehensive piece, or legislation, which ...
Do you agree or disagree that if we in the Congress try to move as aggressively as we can to pass a comprehensive piece of legislation, that...
We need consolidation sites and we need a second repository or more.
For a long-term repository, I would think that the Federal Government would want the Governor and the State legislature to pass a law approv...
I had the same experience with prisons when I became Governor. We couldn't locate one, and I announced that we only had one, and we would ha...
No policy or process involving nuclear waste can be successful unless it is consent-based along the way.
Our sense is that there are things that can be done within existing authority at the Department of Energy to get started on this track.
It is important to protect Tennessee, I know, from the unilateral action of getting a nuclear site.
I want to say welcome to all of our witnesses.
I think it is a fool's errand to think that regulators are going to be ahead of, you know, bankers.
I do hope we are successful in having a markup on the Menendez-Boxer bill and that it is a real markup.
In many ways Dodd-Frank was a political response to a--instead of real reform in so many ways.
I think that picking winners and losers is a very bad idea, and frankly, this administration just really hasn't been very good at it.
