On the recordJuly 11, 1996
The legislation that is being proposed with respect to interim nuclear waste dumps is without precedent in the history of the country and the history of the Senate. Therefore, to ask the Senators from Nevada to surrender any of the parliamentary rights which this body confers upon us is to ask us to abandon the constituents that we represent. So the issue that is all important for us is the interim storage of nuclear waste, and there is no reason why that needs to go forward. The technical review people and scientists tell us there is no reason. It is only the nuclear utility lobby that puts us in this position.
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