There are too many people in this world who think, hey, I can just plug in my car. This energy comes out of the ethos somewhere, and that is not true.

We have heard about the benefits of the program, this committee has obviously limited resources, we all do.

Nuclear modernization demands a substantial and sustained amount of funding through the NNSA.

I am just someone who is trying to, if there are Federal opportunities, I am working hard to try to let people know about those.

What is the State of Florida doing on the nutrient loading? It has been a challenge.

We have to weigh the benefits of the program versus other things that we are putting money into.

the law of the land is Yucca Mountain. And politically, we have been unable to come to an agreement on that.

I am just raising questions. Because nothing is as simple as we oftentimes make it. It is always very complicated.

That is an interesting topic on itself and its challenge with DOE, especially when you have EM sites and the goal of an EM site is to clean it up and move on.

I would buy an electric car tomorrow, but I live in Idaho, and I might drive 500, 600 miles a day, that is not unusual.

It is very important that we do this.

As long as you can charge it.

I'd like to thank the Wyoming and the Idaho delegations including representative Mike Simpson, who has long been a strong advocate for both CAES and INL.

My fear is that we forget about that rest of the person. We forget about the rest of their education.

Our desire is to get as much money out into the program actually as possible.

That is what community colleges are so good at is when an industry or business wants to move into the community and they need some people and some skills, you will find that those community colleges have the flexibility to develop the…

Every part of the country has a competitive advantage with something.

In my view, energy workforce development is about collaboration and establishing closer partnerships between labor, our STEM objectives, the national laboratories, industry, and academia.

I do not know anyplace in Europe that has a permanent geological repository. It is all temporary.

And while you noted the benefits, I thought I was not going to say this, well you noted all about the benefits of the dams, you didn't mention that they also stopped the migration of salmon back to their breeding ground in Idaho which is…

I find that really strange.

At some point in time we are going to have to bite the bullet and get on with this.

Politics has stopped us from solving this problem. And we need to just move on and get it done.

All we need is a big 302(b) allocation. That has always been the challenge, and it is not just from this administration.

I mean, look at the country. We look ridiculous; billions of dollars unused and a political standoff that I don't think is going to end.