Bowing to public opposition and budget constraints, Congress short-circuited the siting process.

President Reagan signed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act into law and praised the bipartisan cooperation.

Implementing the recommendations obviously will require legislation.

I support and encourage responsible development of safe nuclear power, and I think it's the goal that colleagues on both sides of the aisle share.

We've known for decades that we need a permanent waste repository.

I think it was a valuable debate.

Thank you for weighing in and for sharing, with the Armed Services Committee and the Senate at large, your concerns about the detainee provisions.

We need strong regulators who put the interest of the public above the interests of an industry and wake up every day looking for ways to make our country safer.

Make no mistake: after seeing the nuclear crisis that threatened Japan this year, the American people want to know that their Government is doing everything in its power as promptly as can be done to make sure that a nuclear nightmare…

Our mission now must be to implement these recommendations quickly and completely.

I have introduced legislation with Senators Whitehouse and Cardin.

We do not do enough to assist, and incentivize, and require that agriculture be more sensitive to water use.

I, too, appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today.

I want to make sure in any piece of legislation that moves forward, it addresses the needs of Indian Country.

That area I think is one we ought to take a look at. I think that is a very good suggestion.

I think you have hit on one of the things that New Mexico has tried to do, maybe not well enough, but to coordinate and cooperate and work with the Tribe and try to, in particular areas, alleviate that double taxation.

I do think the Federal Government's role can be to supply good information.

The water that is being used by agriculture in many cases is groundwater, and it is being depleted.