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You cannot have an ounce of compassion in you and not be moved tremendously by what is happening there. It is awful. It is horrendous.

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Mr. Risch pertaining to the introduction of S. 1430 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

The Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should comply with the law passed in 2002 approving Yucca Mountain as the repository site by completing the licensing process.

Idaho has an agreement with the Department of Energy as a given date on which the material has to be moved.

As of today the best people in the country, the people who are most knowledgeable about these issues believe that we can have a consent-driven approach.

At what point in time do we say, OK, there's nobody of interest. We're going to go back to the law.

We go around the world criticizing other countries who don't obey their own laws that they're not nations of laws.

I think everyone agrees with you.

We have this law. I've read the report. The report is, as you suggest, or we're waiting for a stampede of people to show up.

But the question is what's the alternative?

As you know when we talked I'm troubled by the fact that we have, we're a Nation of laws.

Congress isn't very good at fixing mistakes that they make sometimes in a bill.

This particular bill recognizes those facilities, extends to them the grandfather rights that they should have had.

First of all, I want to thank Senator Tester for his efforts on the Mount Jefferson bill.

H.R. 876 is an important issue in the State of Idaho.

Thank you for trying to diminish the tremendous damage that has been done by this law.

I cannot apologize for the Federal Government. If I could, I would.

I think that that particular provision of the law that allows the small businesses to pool was a good idea, and I think we probably would have gotten the bipartisan support to actually pass that here.