Mike Simpson actually said...

"I really do not want the EM side of this laboratory in Idaho to affect the lab site."

"I have suggested in the past that we not, as this debate on Yucca Mountain went forward, that we not do anything to ruin that cave because we are going to need a cave that size to store all the study ..."

"A key outcome of the Project AIM recommendations is the development of an overhead structure that is well defined, reasonable, and acceptable to external stakeholders."

"I encourage you to get out to Idaho and meet with our Attorney General and other officials and resolve the disagreements"