I am going to hold you to your word, General. Thank you.

I really believe we are a good working team. Where we disagree, we work it out.

Do you evaluate a potential terrorist attack on the facility?

We also introduced bipartisan legislation yesterday with Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Maria Cantwell to create both temporary and permanent storage sites for nuclear waste.

Candidly, it is really not acceptable when we consider all of the water resource needs our Nation faces.

This is a very high priority for me.

It is not a huge raise, but it is a raise that could be very helpful. And as I understood it, it costs in the millions, not the billions, low millions.

The study continues to be a high priority for me and very frustrating.

He was involved in supporting critical national projects like the restoration of the Everglades.

After years of delay, Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution to our nuclear waste stalemate.

So if I understand this, if the work could be done when the earthquake repair is done, the amount is not that great for a prudent raise.

This budget proposes cutting the Corps' funding to the actual level of spending in 2007. We are literally moving backward on an agency that is crucial to maintaining our country's infrastructure.

So it is your intention to continue with the study?

I would really like to thank everybody for being here today. I very much appreciate your interest in this subject.

I really feel that that spent fuel has to have a place to go, so maybe it can be early in the line, I do not know.

I very much appreciate the fact, Dr. Cook, that you're looking at it.

Can you tell me how you plan to finish the Chief's Report by December 2015, as promised, without Federal funding in the fiscal year 2015 Work Plan?

This really changes my support of the nuclear industry because if things are going to be built that they are going to be there forever and never moved, and subject to--I do not know what the monitoring regime would have to be.

I found it very surprising that there was a 13.8 percent drop in the Corps' budget.

To me, storing this stuff at waste sites, candidly, is not acceptable.

I gather that is correct.

Well, it sounds to me like we have spent a billion--$1.22 billion just now in getting ready to get a project put together.

If we have learned anything it is that these facilities have to have the approval of their community and their State.

I can think of a whole host of things that could happen that are not predictable.

I wanted to--oh, good. Just a word to the distinguished chairman of the Energy Committee, both Senator Alexander and I mentioned that we had completed our joint effort at a nuclear waste policy act.