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I rise today because of strong concerns I have related to the Air Force's evaluation of the events surrounding the tragic Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. The Air Force has not yet released its official report on these events, but it…
It very cleverly changes that. Remember the premise in the 1982 Nuclear Policy Act itself was the responsibility will be that of the utilities, in terms of the financial responsibility. Repeatedly-- over and over again. The responsibility…
Yes. The point I am trying to make is, by way of comparison, we are talking about tens of thousands of metric tons, so the degree of risk is immeasurably greater as a result. Let me turn next to the question of the lawsuit. Much has been…
I respect and greatly admire the Senator's concern about the health and safety of his own State. I just wish he shared that same perspective in terms of the health and safety of the entire Nation, because that is one of the principal…
A point I want to make very emphatically is the Senator from Idaho is quoting from only a part of the preemption language. The preemption language, in effect, says that if the requirements of any Federal, State, or local law are…
I have tried purposely to keep the focus on the issues, but I must say that my friend from Idaho has spoken and my friend from Wyoming has just spoken, and they obviously reach a different conclusion as to the urgency of the need than does…
Madam President, it has been a number of weeks we have been discussing the high-level nuclear waste issue. And I think it is time to put this into some perspective. In 1980, some 16 years ago, debate on the floor of the Senate indicated…
What this amendment does is simply incorporate into the bill provisions that exist in the contract. My colleagues will recall that under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the Department of Energy was directed to enter into contracts…
much has been said over the past few hours today and earlier during the course of our discussion of S. 1936 about what I consider one of the most serious defects of this piece of legislation in that it emasculates the environmental…
Mr. President, I believe it will be helpful for our colleagues and staffs listening in, because these two amendments have been described in the abstract. I acknowledge and confess that it has been a number of years since I attended law…
Under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the Department of Energy and the utilities entered into a contract. It is the contractual liability that becomes the issue as a result of the court's decision that the senior Senator from Louisiana…
If I may very briefly respond to my friend from Mississippi, and then I will yield to my friend from Arkansas, it seems to me that we talk a lot about sacrifice--the need for us to notch up the proverbial belt and slim down, streamline…
this amendment is regarding the Market Access Program. The Market Access Program, or MAP, was created to encourage the development, maintenance, and expansion of exports of U.S. agricultural products. MAP is the successor to the Market…
a matter that I would like to clarify with the bill's lead sponsor, Senator Simon, involves two interrelated issues regarding the Commission's study of the role of advertising in promoting gaming. First, unlike the Commission's other areas…
I want to address the broad policy implications of S. 1936. I want to emphasis that my comments apply directly to the bill before us, not 1271. There has been some suggestion that 1936 represents improvement over 1271, its predecessor. It…
Mr. President, another public policy disaster is the statutory provision in this S. 1936 we are debating this morning that provides for a 100-millirem standard for us in Nevada. There is an international consensus that somewhere between 10…
the Sierra Club is another preeminent environmental organization in the country. The Sierra Club has indicated that the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1996, S. 1271, which is now S. 1936--a bill that threatens the health and safety of…
I want to begin this afternoon by trying to give a graphic example of what it is that we fear if we do not have the adequate safeguards and protections, which, in my view, and in the view of the administration and many of my colleagues…
That is the 1960's into the early 1970's. We heard a lot about the so-called WIPP site, waste isolation pilot project. Sometime in the early 1970's, the former Governor of New Mexico invited the Atomic Energy Commission to study sites in…
Mr. President, during the course of the debate on S. 1936, as it has resonated across this Chamber today and earlier, a contention has been advanced that indeed S. 1936 is a much improved form of its predecessor, S. 1271, because it has…
I am sure the Senator from Alaska is aware that the Senators from Nevada are not trying to do anything that would compromise or jeopardize national defense. The Senators from Nevada, like the Senator from Alaska, have a strong…
That is the provision that had not heretofore been discussed, as the majority leader knows, and we had assumed within the parameters of what was being discussed all rights would be reserved under rule XXII, including any options that might…
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…
I must say, it prompts the question in this Senator's mind. There must be more to this than we understand. Somehow, in a deliberative chamber, that there would be a suggestion made that health and safety standards, which presumably are…
This bill deals comprehensively with the problem of civilian nuclear waste. It is an urgent problem, Mr. President, for this Nation. It is urgent first because we are running out of reactor space at reactors for the storage of the fuel and…
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