We could have had substantive hearings, but no, we are going to have a show, a dog-and-pony show.

I wouldn't fund it either if it was that high. So we think it was gold-plated out of hand.

I ask this Subcommittee to fully fund Yucca Mountain in this appropriations bill.

We need your help. Our recovery has been way too slow.

Nuclear power is critical to our power grid and an important part of our energy future.

I agree with you. And it is something we have been battling to try to address now for many years.

It's about ecological productivity, helping to address sea rise challenges and vulnerabilities.

South Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles, and it is really extraordinary, and it is losing communities, it is losing people.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate somebody else walking into this Committee to talk about south Louisiana.

I was a little offended by the suggestion that anybody who has received a contribution suddenly has been bought in regard to an agenda.

We have had over a billion dollars in FEMA claims in this region without any work on this project.

I do believe that the climate is changing, and I think I have said that at virtually every hearing we have had where climate has been discussed.

An authorization should mean something to someone, it should mean something to our residence, not the actual death sentence.

I do appreciate that you all have taken steps, I do.

I want to ask to insert in the record two things.

We are also the top fisheries producer, in terms of commercial fisheries in the continental United States.

That law that we worked closely with your delegation in putting together does provide some additional flexibility and dollars on more resilient reconstruction.

That letter was signed by Senators Schumer, Cantwell, Menendez, and Markey. That letter was written to the President of the United States, asking that the President work with our OPEC allies to increase--to increase--global oil production.