All we need is a big 302(b) allocation. That has always been the challenge, and it is not just from this administration.

My fear is that we forget about that rest of the person. We forget about the rest of their education.

Every part of the country has a competitive advantage with something.

In my view, energy workforce development is about collaboration and establishing closer partnerships between labor, our STEM objectives, the national laboratories, industry, and academia.

That is an interesting topic on itself and its challenge with DOE, especially when you have EM sites and the goal of an EM site is to clean it up and move on.

Some of the work that--all of the work that you do is some of the most important work that we do in this government, and I appreciate the job you are all doing.

I appreciate all your testimony and all of you being here today. It is an interesting subject, one that we don't know a lot about, frankly.

Politics has stopped us from solving this problem. And we need to just move on and get it done.

That is what community colleges are so good at is when an industry or business wants to move into the community and they need some people and some skills, you will find that those community colleges have the flexibility to develop the…

I do not know anyplace in Europe that has a permanent geological repository. It is all temporary.

And while you noted the benefits, I thought I was not going to say this, well you noted all about the benefits of the dams, you didn't mention that they also stopped the migration of salmon back to their breeding ground in Idaho which is…

Our desire is to get as much money out into the program actually as possible.

I'd like to thank the Wyoming and the Idaho delegations including representative Mike Simpson, who has long been a strong advocate for both CAES and INL.

I find that really strange.

As long as you can charge it.

At some point in time we are going to have to bite the bullet and get on with this.

I am just raising questions. Because nothing is as simple as we oftentimes make it. It is always very complicated.

Because he is the one that is going to get the benefit, it is improving the property that he is renting out and he is renting it out and making profit off of it. So it seems like there ought to be some type of cost share for the landlord.