The threat from al-Qa'ida's affiliates and adherents around the world has increased and presents particular challenges.

I am very pleased to introduce today the Data Breach Notification Act of 2011. This bill would require that consumers be notified when their sensitive personally identifiable information has been exposed in a data breach and also that law…

today I am introducing a private relief bill on behalf of Guy Privat Tape and Lou Nazie Raymonde Toto. Mr. Tape and Ms. Toto are citizens of the Ivory Coast, but have been living in the San Francisco area of California for approximately 17…

I rise to speak in strong support of S. 1103, the legislation before the Senate to extend the term of Robert Mueller, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This is an important piece of legislation because without it…

I think we have to deal with these issues. Otherwise, I feel from my vote that I just compound the problem down line.

We should use subsidies to jump start technologies, like offshore wind.

To me, that is putting the cart before the horse.

It seems to me that we're in a brave new world and these are big companies. They make profits.

I think all of this goes into the decision as to whether the Government should subsidize which we're already doing.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you this morning.

I have a hard time with a new start before we have any permanent method of fuel storage.

You certainly have my full support to do that.

Yes. I understand that, but these are very profitable companies. We've already established they're going to be subsidized.

We badly need a place to put, in the end, used nuclear fuel.

Thank you, Dr. Lyman.

So to be cost effective, you have to manufacture 10 units, but that doesn't mean you have to cluster them all together.

My big concern is that they're not cost effective on their own, that they have to be clustered.

I'm reticent about it because if we let this go without a policy for spent fuel, if we close the plant or the repository in Nevada after spending $14 billion on it, we have $13 billion in liabilities because we can't dispose of the waste…

That's because the subsidy was passed in 2005.

In 2005, the Congress enacted legislation creating a 2-cent-per-kilowatt-hour subsidy for the first eight newly built nuclear reactors in our country.

Are you essentially saying the same thing that Mr. Ferland said that if you can manufacture 10, from a manufacturing point of view, that's cost effective, but that you can operate one in a cost-effective way?

I very much appreciate that. I think that's a lot of food for thought.

So you're saying the same thing. Is your cost of production at 10 to be cost effective and one will stand on its own?

My friend, the distinguished ranking member of this subcommittee, often talks with me about subsidies for wind energy. I look at this program and think that it appears to be one heck of a proposed subsidy.

Would you agree that taking two SMR designs through design certification will cost at least $1.5 billion?