Mike Simpson

Do you believe that healthcare consumers ought to have choices in healthcare coverage options?

We have to think about serving our birth to 5's for more than 1 year.

We need to be subsidizing this care for our poor and near poor mothers.

I am asking you to support early childhood education, please.

I have told people that NIH is probably the best kept secret in Washington, DC.

NIH is very important to this committee and it is very important to Congress.

I don't see any reason why we ought not be able to accomplish that.

This may actually be the most important hearing this committee and maybe even Congress has because the impacts of what you are working on are something that, while unfortunately are not felt tomorrow like building a new road, or paving a…

If we cannot guarantee them that when they build a $1.8 billion facility here, that the power is not going to be available 24/7, then we are not going to be successful in that.

We have a moral obligation, as I said in my remarks, to remove this from as many of these sites as we can and put it in the safest repository.

It makes no sense to cut Federal spending for authorized rural water projects when the president, States, and union Tribes are all calling for infrastructure projects to be completed to help create American jobs and promote economic…

I believe that the completion of the license application will highlight the technical merits and alleviate any environmental concerns for its neighbors.

I strongly urge the Appropriations Committee to allocate funding specifically for the completion of Yucca Mountain license application.

I am a supporter of trying to be able to use the full breadth of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

We should have no lower goal for our country.

It is for their health that the Federal Government creates water quality standards, and the Federal Government has the responsibility to help these communities meet those standards.

More funding is needed to accelerate the construction of these already authorized CERP projects.

Thank you, Congressman Rooney. Questions?

I think if we are successful and we continue to support the small modular reactor, that it can be a game changer in the nuclear side of things and bring America back to a preeminent role as leaders in the technology and innovation and…

My goal is that is not where we end up, that we, obviously, find the solutions for the Westinghouse issue.

Trust us; we will be there for you. That is a really bad message.

I really think we need a fast reactor in this country.

I do have some concerns with the budget because it is going to be difficult to be supportive of the license renewals.

We need an honest assessment of what this is going to be.

If we are going to walk away from the treaty with Russia, then let's declare it and just walk away from it.