Political Quotes

“I rise to speak today on the status of our nuclear industry in this country and the realization that it is time that the U.S. Senate resolve the question of what to do with the high-level waste that is generated by our nuclear reactors generating power throughout this Nation. What would you think of the Federal Government's response to entering into a contract to take the high-level nuclear waste in 1998, and, 1998 having come and gone, the ratepayers who receive nuclear power into their homes have paid somewhere in the area of $11 billion to the Federal Government to take that waste in 1998? As we all know, 1998 has come and gone. The sanctity of the contractual relationship between the Government and the nuclear industry, obviously, has been ignored by our Government. As a consequence, there is potential litigation--litigation that has arisen as a consequence of the nonfulfilling of the contractual arrangement that was entered into to take the waste. So, clearly, we have a responsibility that is long overdue.”