"I consider the amount of money we're talking about unacceptable. $260 billion is unacceptable."
"Let's just follow what Senator Graham suggested, that, as I understand it--I may be wrong, but, as I understand, the South Carolina agreement was that you get 90 percent of the waste removed..."
"$260 billion is a lot of money that could, I think, if we did this thing right, reduce that cost and save $100 billion."
"So, it's going to be decades before you-- but, your ultimate plan was to transmit this waste to Yucca, correct?"
"There are a lot of ramifications for not proceeding with Yucca. It's not just commercial-reactor spent fuel, it's nuclear Cold War residue, fuels like this."
"this $6 billion increase in funding was a stimulus package bill that DOE projects would create 13,000 jobs."
"Are you looking creatively and are you demanding of every employee under you that they are thinking on how we can do this project in an effective way?"
"Nothing comes from nothing. The money spent should compete with other energy environmental concerns."
"I certainly hope that we're not locked into some sort of agreement we made 30 years ago."
"Well, they did a fabulous job."
"I just think we need to thank the men and women in uniform who made that happen."
"This is a sovereign nation and an important nation and I hope that we can all remember that."
"We can hope it would continue to maintain its democratic traditions."
"Pakistan has been a long-time ally of the United States. This is a very important nation."
"I have a deep faith that continues to this very day, that markets do a better job disciplining risk than bureaucrats do."
"I appreciate these hearings that you are putting together, and, gosh, we could be here all week and learn a heck of a lot."
"I want to thank you, like Senator Dodd did, for your contribution."
"I hope we will resist any move--any move--that gives anybody that kind of power and basically renders almost every other entity in Government useless."
