Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this House has always operated in a fair and evenhanded way. And I must say, the use of the pro forma amendment by my colleagues on the Republican side creates a very unfair debate, in which the points put forward in opposition to my amendment, I do not have time to deal with. However, I will take whatever time I have remaining and not spend much time on the necessity for fairness in the debate, which has a whole lot to do with the time available. Now, very, very quickly, since I have only a minute and some seconds left here. This is not an end to the plutonium pit production. What it says is to pause for 1 year, an $850 million expenditure on what has become not a plutonium pit but a dollar pit. Billions and billions of dollars have been spent on the Savannah facility, first, to somehow deal with the nuclear waste. That didn't work. It has been repurposed to build plutonium pits. The reality here is there will not be a pit built in Savannah River for at least a decade. So all of this chatter about the safety of this Nation is nonsense. The reality here is we have a money pit. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the gentleman has expired.”