Mike Simpson: “The law of the land is Yucca Mountain. And politically, we have been unable to come to an agreement on that.”

This should not be this damn complicated, and somehow we’ve got to change that.

But I’ve said from the beginning: We’re not going to try to balance the budget on the back of the tribes.

We put a bunch more money into tribal justice, and that’s hard in a year when we’re trying to reduce spending at the federal level.

We’re not going to tear down and bulldoze the Kennedy Center.