Thank you again, Senator Fischer for your leaderships both in the Nebraska Unicameral and now in the United States Senate providing improved road funding for the State of Nebraska and now the entire country.

A robust transportation system requires well-maintained roads, bridges, railways, and highways to bring our goods to market.

Western Nebraska values safe, efficient, and reliable infrastructure, which is critical to the local economy.

With the passage of the FAST Act, states and localities will now have certainty to plan and implement projects for the next 5 years.

The message from Nebraskans was loud and clear: Our businesses, consumers and families wanted a long-term highway bill.

We also appreciate Chairman Thune's interest in promoting freight improvement.

It's a real testament to our Congressional leaders' commitment to infrastructure.

I was proud to work with my colleagues on this bipartisan legislation and usher in the first multi-year transportation bill in over a decade.

So our military efforts, though, are focused entirely on ISIL, not the chaos that is happening in the entire country?

This important legislation we are discussing today will provide our nuclear innovators the transparent framework that is necessary to launch this nuclear fleet into the future.

Thank you, Senator Blumenthal.

The EPA must be accountable to the American people.

I think it's safe to say that the goal of this initiative is to preserve and enhance our technology-based military superiority.

I'm concerned that we become so reliant upon technology that that reliance can be exploited.

You need it all.

This committee has expressed concerns about how the NRC's use of subjective qualitative factors, as opposed to objective quantitative factors, can erode the Backfit Rule.

Response to written questions submitted to Hon. Peter Neffenger by: Hon. Deb Fischer

I would certainly hope we could get responses in a more timely manner, and not just before you are going to show up before the Committee for a hearing.