Dianne Feinstein

I think just based on the aging and the changing nature of the threat, we need to replace a system.

I'm one that is on the other side of this question.

Well, I was here when Pete Domenici was on the committee and opposed this. We voted for it. And here we are 10 years-plus later, and it is not there.

If we continue to do so, the costs are huge. I mean, I am really a doubting Thomasina there.

If it is not going to reach its goal, which I understand it may never be able to produce fusion.

I am a big believer in desal. I would like to see it go ahead.

I am sure not going to vote for it until I know what it is going to do, because I know what the need is for the third-stage membrane.

I think it just puts more and more people in jeopardy of one day an accident.

I guess I am beginning to feel inordinate frustration because... it sits and sits and sits.

If there is going to be a future, a real future for nuclear, there has to be a place to put the waste.

I think we ought to take a real look at those subsidies that have existed for more than 20 years.

If you can do it, why not go ahead and do it?

I think that is extraordinarily important.

The Government continues to fail in this.

I think it is becoming very clear that unless we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we are going to see catastrophic sea level rise, devastating droughts, more wildfires, more habitat loss, greater ranges of exposures for disease, and…

I believe Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution, but we have more used fuel than Yucca Mountain's legal capacity.

I understand that. I am really interested in specifics in the program, perhaps you can arrange a briefing for me on that.

When do you expect to transition these monitoring programs from pilots to large scale implementation?

We cannot have this kind of thing happen, and what I would like to ask that you do is once again take a good look at it and see whatever gauges we have are working correctly, and this does not happen again.

Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here. With all the events that we have watched, you are doing a very good job, and that is very much appreciated.

I hope that we can keep our questions relatively limited to the need for this particular session and our budget--our appropriations bill.

I am concerned that Reclamation has pumped less water in 2016 during this El Nino year than it did in 2015.

I do not think you find that acceptable, and I do not find it acceptable.

I think they are doing very good work, but they are not the law, and this is the law.

Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman.