I had the same experience with prisons when I became Governor. We couldn't locate one, and I announced that we only had one, and we would have a competition.

We need consolidation sites and we need a second repository or more.

This has been very helpful and very, very interesting.

For a long-term repository, I would think that the Federal Government would want the Governor and the State legislature to pass a law approving it.

Our sense is that there are things that can be done within existing authority at the Department of Energy to get started on this track.

No policy or process involving nuclear waste can be successful unless it is consent-based along the way.

We have conclusively demonstrated that we have a big difference of opinion over Yucca Mountain.

To think about using windmills when we have nuclear reactors would be like General Scowcroft going to war in sailboats when we had a nuclear navy available.

We are going to work together, Mr. Chairman, with you and others to try to break the stalemate, address the issue and begin to implement the best ideas from this report.

Mr. President, Abraham Lincoln was no stranger to agriculture. He spent most of his early years on farms. Many years later, he signed into law legislation that created the Department of Agriculture, which just recently celebrated its 150th…

Do you agree or disagree that if we in the Congress try to move as aggressively as we can to pass a comprehensive piece of legislation, that it is prudent to go ahead with the language in the Appropriations bill that allows the Department…

In the proposal in the Appropriations bill, of course, any site that is chosen, even as a pilot site, would have to be approved by the Congress.

I continue with Roosevelt's prayer. And for us at home--fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas--whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them--help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in…

Madam President, I yield to the Senator from Ohio. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Ohio. World War II Prayer Act of 2012

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Special Committee on Aging be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 6, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. in room 562 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building to conduct a hearing entitled…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on June 6, 2012, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing…

Madam President, I thank my friend from Ohio for taking the lead on what I call a noble project, and I am confident that all of our colleagues will join us in this to include FDR's national prayer at the World War II Memorial. It is very…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on June 6, 2012, at 10:00 a.m., in room SD 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to conduct a hearing…