What exists in Cuba is not some cold war relic of interest. It is, in fact, three things.

They are literally incompetent leaders. They have no idea how to run an economy, how to create the conditions for job creation.

But your name is going to be recorded, and you will be brought before justice.

the national interests of the United States have to be to see democracy fostered inside of Cuba

if the people of Cuba had access to the Internet and could communicate with one another... I do not believe the Castro regime could survive that for very long.

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Thanks very much.

I know that any consent-based approach must include a meaningful partnership between Federal, local, and State leaders.

You should start with additional hearings on the issues that are going to be very complicated, like fees.

My personal opinion is at the moment, without a robust, discernible repository development program, the enthusiasm for moving early on consolidated storage will probably be short lived.

The repository could be quite a number of years away.

What would be your first action to get this country started on a consent-based approach toward finding a final resting place for our spent fuel?