Mike Simpson actually said...

"But basically, we can put all the money into a program in the world. If we don't have the personnel to carry out the projects and so forth that is necessary, it doesn't really do any good."

"I look forward to the day when we can actually sit down and talk person-to-person and meet face-to-face and discuss some of these issues."

"Using the administration's own numbers, nondefense programs are increased by $105 billion, or 16 percent, while defense programs only go up by $12 billion, or not even 2 percent."

"She said that Yucca Mountain had been both a political and a scientific failure. She is half right. It was a political failure."