The reason this is important is, unfortunately, due to Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, which is a great tragedy. A lot of people think about the containment issue, which has always been the fear. Part of the Fukushima Daiichi problem was the…

Yes. I think I briefly tried to show this article from The Salt Lake Tribune, dated December 8, which talks about some of the reactor parts that are going to go out to Utah. What the article ends up saying is: The site will not, however…

My colleague is correct. We've already spent about $14.5 billion dollars in the research, the development, the exploration, the testing. A lot of money, time, effort, and some of our greatest minds have been involved. I don't really think…

The city of Las Vegas, which is the major metropolitan area, is a hundred miles from Yucca Mountain. What people have a hard time understanding about the nuclear test area, this is where the nuclear test site was. The Federal Government…

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established Yucca Mountain as the national repository for high-level nuclear waste. And, again, for the educational purposes, Mr. Speaker, that is spent fuel. Sometimes it's spent nuclear waste from our…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Water and Power be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 8, 2011, at 2:30 p.m., in room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The PRESIDING…

Can you tell me the disposition of what's going on with the Zion Power Plant? What's going on there right now?

If the gentleman would grant me just a moment. When you said there's a mountain in the desert, or there's I think 131 locations as it exists today, I can tell you I have four of those locations in the 11th District in Illinois. I believe…

If I can just say quickly on that point, Aby Mohseni, acting director for licensing and inspections at the NRC, made this remark: ``Some senior managers contributed to the manipulation of the budget process and information to apparently…

If my colleague wouldn't mind, and you mentioned it just a few minutes ago, this idea passed this body with a large majority. That to me seems like this is the will of the American people. It's not just some agenda or some crazy…

Sure. And paying for a long time. Let me add, for every year we delay opening--Yucca Mountain is not going away; it doesn't disappear off the face of the Earth--for every year we delay, it's costing us half a billion dollars more than what…

I thank my colleague from Illinois. I just want to say thank you for your leadership on this issue, among many other things. This is an issue that is very important. It is important not just for the country. It is important for my State…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. This bill is dangerous and its title is disingenuous. H.R. 1633 is about much more than farm dust. Our colleague Mr. Shimkus acknowledged that much in the Energy and Commerce Committee markup of this…

Mr. President, experts blame credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations for the financial crisis. The fact is, these complicated financial products were based on mortgages sold to families who couldn't afford them, credit…

Mr. President, in the school year 2009-2010, the U.S. Department of Education provided $132 billion in grants and loans to students. That was up from $49 billion in 2001--a dramatic increase in Federal aid to education. A large part of the…

Let me thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding, but I also want to commend him for his many years of excellent service to this body that we know as the United States House of Representatives. And I want to commend him for the…

I want to thank the gentleman from Virginia for yielding. I rise in opposition to the proposed multistate mortgage settlement currently being negotiated between the country's major mortgage servicers and the State attorney generals. Before…

In 1996 Congress passed the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA. It was then, as it still is today, an affront to our country's values--the values we hold true as established in the Declaration of Independence, those of life…