It is serious business. I mean, we're talking about billions of dollars here, and we just don't have billions of dollars...
Well, there's a competition going on for management of the Y12 project.
The contractor was arguing that the longer we delayed UPF, the more money we wasted.
isn't the idea that the research and development (R&D) project is ready to be demonstrated for 2 years.
We need $372 billion more for nuclear weapons modernization than your budget recommends.
So manufacturing 10 or 20 and then otherwise processing an additional number of pits.
Well, that's very important and another part, Madam Chairman, of making good use of the taxpayer dollars.
The feeling is absolutely mutual, and I'd like to write that down if I may.
So the answer is yes, you're going to amend the 1251 budget, 1251 number.
Just to summarize the chairman's questions about USEC, I mean, basically, this centrifuge project is completed to the po...
I would like to receive assurances from you that you will continue to focus on finishing the radiological cleanup.
Isn't the question, is the project ready to receive funding for a 2-year demonstration about whether it works or not?
I want to congratulate the Corps of Engineers for the work you did during the floods and natural disasters of 2011.
I think we need to take a big look at these two trust funds, and think bigger than the funds.
You don't start out by talking about the money, you start out by talking about the policy and the need.
One of the reasons we don't have money for the dams and locks that it should be funding is this Olmsted Lock.
The problem with the Harbor Trust Fund, of course, it has a lot of money in it, we just can't spend it.
Well, that is dramatic news for the people of the Southeastern United States which I've not heard before.
