I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 26, line 18, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $329,000,000)''. Page 29, line 21, after the dollar amount…

The gentleman from Nevada is on to a very, very important issue here: What are we going to do with spent nuclear fuel? Our current light water reactors consume maybe 3 percent of the energy in the nuclear fuel. You can reprocess it once…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 30, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

A few moments ago, I talked about priorities; $7.6 billion plus for nuclear weapons. We just heard the gentleman discuss the issue of locks and levees and ports, projects in my district for the ports, for deepening the channels, for…

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for raising opposition to the amendment. I'm glad he gave me a few moments, Madam Chair, to slow down a bit before I would comment on the amendment. {time} 1915 The author of the amendment would…

I would be happy to address my comments through the Chair. Madam Chair, the priorities that are in this bill are dead wrong. Natomas in Sacramento, 20-foot potential water in the wintertime, with the water temperature somewhere in the 40…

Thank you. I might just point out that, with sequestration this year, we took $250 million out of the Corps of Engineers' budget, so we're building on a lower base. This is going to be tragedy and tragic--but, Madam Chair, these are our…

I appreciate the respect. You and the chairman have made a very good argument for my amendment, and I thank you for that. My amendment doesn't do anything that you're not already trying to do. It simply gives some more specific direction…

The committee has done a considerable amount of work on one of the very expensive facilities we have in the nuclear arena. This is the MOX facility in South Carolina. In the current report language, the committee deals with the problem…

We have to complete the process of planning, we have to complete this particular effort.

This plan really is the culmination of some 30 years of effort to try to figure out how to...position one of the greatest amenities in this world, Yosemite National Park, for the 21st century and all the challenges that it has.

That's very interesting. Mr. Takano, you're absolutely correct about the role of immigration and the comprehensive reform. There are some pieces that we often talk about: the DREAMers, the young men and women that came here as children…