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Mike Simpson: “I would think that it would be more than just a presidential decision not to do it.”

On the recordJuly 15, 2009
I would think that it would be more than just a presidential decision not to do it.
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Mike Simpson
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Simpson questions the authority behind the decision to terminate Yucca Mountain.

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