Doing business with the DOD either the cost to enter the defense market or the cost to comply with defense regulations is prohibitive.
We just can't allow Washington State to be the repository for 90 percent of the Nation's high-level waste and then think we've done our job.
I do think it's a shortcoming of the process.
Hanford is the site with the majority of the Nation's military waste.
We get $.01 back on every $1 we put into this thing.
We have spent over $12 billion and 30 years moving forward in Yucca, and now we are at this point where we have a commission that I liken to...
We all agree that it needs to be fixed. It is a question of how to fix it.
this is not a partisan issue, this is an economic issue that has got to be dealt with.
The HMT shouldn't just sit there while our nation's ports have problems.
I also feel like the people who put this hearing together think that all the shipping in the world goes out of the south or the east.
I am hopeful that the courts are actually going to rule in favor of enforcing the law.
I guess what that approach ignores is the consent decree that has already been agreed upon with the Federal Government.
I am deeply grateful for the leadership of Chairman Tiberi and Congressman McDermott, the lead sponsors of ASRA.
And if my state got 20 percent of the money I would probably be advocating for more.
I really am alarmed by the failure of public process and something that I just think is a disregard of the law in this instance.
Under this bill, would the United States government be able to assess the impact of that export on consumer prices in the United States at a...
I greatly admire that decision, even as I am very personally disappointed by it.
Gabby will be very much missed from this Congress and particularly from this committee.
