Jim Risch

every one of us can stand here and tell thousands of stories. Mine will come from a gentleman by the name of Clint W., who is a small business owner. He received notice that he wasn't grandfathered, was being cancelled as of the first of…

Without those people being freed, there is no chance that Iran is going to convince me that they have any willingness to participate in the international community.

When you look at this man's history, and indeed, when you look at his abilities, when we all know who is actually running that country, we ought to just flat ignore him.

It is really unfortunate that those of us that have been elected to govern and want to govern cannot govern because we cannot get a vote on these things.

I think what we ought to do is take a step back and say, look, we do not want to hear this stuff.

I will be brief. I want to talk briefly and ask a question about the area the Senator was just talking about. My good friend Senator Rubio made reference to the story I am going to tell. My good friends on the other side of the aisle are…

will the good Senator yield for a question without yielding the floor?

We enthusiastically embrace it for a lot of different reasons. But not the least of which is and the primary objective is to conserve the species and see that it does have a sustainable future in Idaho.

It will certainly add to the credibility of the Department if you can complete it as scheduled.

What does that do to our credibility? You know, that concerns me.

You cannot have an ounce of compassion in you and not be moved tremendously by what is happening there. It is awful. It is horrendous.

I view this as a major issue, and I do not view them as cooperating with us.

I rise today to introduce a bill called the Idaho Wilderness Water Facilities Act. This bill is identical to the House version, H.R. 876, which was introduced and carried through the House by my colleague from Idaho, Representative Mike…

I thank the Chair. (The remarks of Mr. Risch pertaining to the introduction of S. 1430 are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

H.R. 876 is an important issue in the State of Idaho.

the Administration and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission should comply with the law passed in 2002 approving Yucca Mountain as the repository site by completing the licensing process.

At what point in time do we say, OK, there's nobody of interest. We're going to go back to the law.

Idaho has an agreement with the Department of Energy as a given date on which the material has to be moved.

But the question is what's the alternative?

Congress isn't very good at fixing mistakes that they make sometimes in a bill.

I think everyone agrees with you.

As of today the best people in the country, the people who are most knowledgeable about these issues believe that we can have a consent-driven approach.

As you know when we talked I'm troubled by the fact that we have, we're a Nation of laws.

We have this law. I've read the report. The report is, as you suggest, or we're waiting for a stampede of people to show up.

First of all, I want to thank Senator Tester for his efforts on the Mount Jefferson bill.