Dianne Feinstein

I want my grandchildren and their children to grow up in a nuclear-free world. I am going to do everything I can to be helpful to get there.

If you had these pits, how much would you reduce the stockpile by? I mean, this is important.

So, what you are telling me is that the administration's design, or the Government's design, is that there are essentially 3,500.

I do not want to see, you know, RRW in disguise right now.

Because what you have always led me to believe is that modernization is really for the protection of the workers...

I am not for new nuclear weapons. I will do everything I can to prevent the development of a new nuclear weapon.

So, you have 2 more years.

I expressed some concern about the risk of insiders stealing or helping to steal nuclear materials.

I think the second major reason is we have, in my view, particularly as we look at the data, an increase in the recognition of how these laboratories contribute to a much broader range of national security and nuclear security work than…

I hope that I can support the chairman and that we can vigorously assist you in taking a fresh look at project management.

You could make that 2-year goal.

Probably the area where we in the Senate have not done as well as we should have is in the area of oversight.

We have got to clean up radiation. We have got to clean up mercury.

I think in a sense, they are an endangered species because they are probably the only one, Senator Alexander, that is going to get this kind of a raise.

There were arms directly near the door and my understanding is he was right there and going to get those arms. So, you know, you really can't take a chance.

I think we have to know whether they knew, if the Pakistanis knew. If they didn't know, why didn't they know? Why didn't they pay more attention to it?

Just know there is very deep concern about this.

Seven smelt could stop the pumps.

I wanted to take you into the heart of California water versus fish.

Without continued maintenance dredging of the Federal channel at roughly 3-year intervals, none of these scientific, educational, environmental research, and vital commercial fishing activities could continue uninterrupted.

The President continues to place a priority on DOE in his fiscal year 2012 budget request, proposing $29.5 billion.

Scientific research is critical to innovation, which is fundamental to job creating, economic growth, and global competitiveness.

WAP is the largest residential energy conservation program in the Nation and serves an essential function by helping low-income families reduce their energy use.

We are equally grateful to the chairman and the other members of this subcommittee and staff, for their continuing efforts in funding critically needed operations and maintenance funding of all our Nation's ports both large and small…

I believe you have just $200 million in the budget for that and that you have sent letters to 50 renewable energy developers who had applied for loan guarantees saying their applications were on hold because DOE believed these would have…