Barbara Boxer

Not one Democrat ever criticized her experience even though she worked for Senators Craig and John Warner.

But my interest here, you know, is not in Korea, it is about my State and 500,000 people...

This is a hearing and I would like you to address the Chair.

I believe that now that the seismic issues are resolved, the engineering questions should go to the front of the list.

This is shocking. This is, in my view, unethical. This is dangerous.

I mean, that is the biggest no-brainer known to mankind.

Fukushima was a huge disaster for the nuclear industry worldwide.

If that is not foremost in your mind, then that is not what you should be doing.

We should work through them together.

For God's sake, do two, three or four of the things and get it done because one of those 12 things could be absolutely critical.

Maybe that plant wouldn't have had to shut down.

I have to say you teamed up with Russia, that is the story, to block a reactor safety proposal overseas that would require existing reactors to be retrofitted to prevent accidents caused by severe earthquakes.

You either suspend operation until you have retrofitted the plant in the right way, and fix it and start it up, or that is it.

We are looking for safety. We are looking to make sure that we don't build plants on earthquake faults.

The NRC never approved a new request.

How you can say you are proud that you helped us post-Fukushima is beyond my belief and understanding.

This outrage over appointing commissioners who worked as congressional staffers is worse than ringing hollow.

It is so frustrating. You have senior officials that talk about safety, you have an IG that faults you and all you do is continue to look at something.

I never heard one word from a Republican against Commissioner Svinicki.

I think you are on to something critical which is the emergency preparedness has to be more front and center given the fact we are going into these extreme weather events that shock us.

I think that what for me is the critical piece here is the safety of that little daughter.

It is not good. And you can go through all of the, I never heard someone sort of try to minimize earthquakes.

To say that there are good systems for dealing with this if there is a 'beyond design basis event' really begs the question.

The risks, the financial risks that these companies are taking add to my concern because everything is not on the line because of Price-Anderson.

I honest to God think, given your obvious intimate knowledge of the NRC and how people disagree and all this, you are proving his point.