I have a bill that would require hunting to be a consideration in all wildlife management on Federal properties.

We have seen over and over again here with the Endangered Species Act and other Federal law that science is not sometimes true science.

During the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin wrote a speech urging the assembly to begin their morning session with daily prayer. Franklin wrote: I have lived a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see…

We see no drawbacks whatsoever in the NRC completing its technical review of Yucca Mountain.

Science--not politics--should govern the process for selecting a permanent repository for nuclear waste.

the proposed repository meets all applicable safety requirements, including those related to human health and groundwater protection.

This Administration has long claimed that it makes its decisions based on science.

In 2008, the President stated that he would 'restore the basic principle that government decisions should be based on the best-available, scientifically valid evidence.'

As a Nation, we should be moving forward in accordance with the law established by Congress through the Nuclear Waste Policy Act unless and until that law is changed.

Ultimately, nuclear waste management is a commercial activity.

Government management of commercial activities does not work.

Mr. Chairman, Yucca Mountain has local support.

The State of Nevada currently opposes Yucca Mountain.

deep boreholes have the potential to provide essentially complete isolation for the wastes indefinitely.

Let us also not forget that Yucca Mountain is designated by law as the Nation's spent fuel repository.

It will take decades to study, license and build something other than Yucca Mountain.

The decision to close Yucca Mountain was not driven by science, and it is a fiction to pretend that it was.

Excluding Yucca Mountain definitely detracts from the Blue Ribbon Commission's ability to develop the best possible recommendations.

It is an outrage that Federal law is so blatantly being ignored.

the site would perform well, that it would meet the NRC and EPA requirements

Continuing to suppress this critical data seems to contradict President Obama's scientific integrity objectives.

I think what has taken Yucca Mountain off the table in terms of a long-term solution for a repository for our nuclear waste is the science.

The Country needs a repository to dispose of its spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.

The DOE, the ERDA and the AEC spent many years attempting to site a geological repository.

There is no need for the BRC to make alternatives to Yucca Mountain. DOE, NRC and the Obama Administration should comply with the law or change it.