It does affect the priorities.

Would you reprioritize any of your projects because they may have a higher priority under the auspices of America's Great Outdoors?

Boy, it is easy to file suit when someone else is paying. We have a problem here. One that needs to be solved.

I have heard many speak recently about potential new cuts or reductions to our nuclear stockpile, and these reports give me great pause.

Thank you for taking several of us to Los Alamos and Sandia and the Nevada test site last March.

I said many times that if we do not clean up the legacy of the past, there will not be a nuclear future in this country.

If they believe it is just a political organization and becoming more politicized all the time, then you damage that credibility.

It seems to me like there is an agenda of trying to push the green technology.

I am disappointed in the budget overall, not necessarily how you allocated the money, but the request.

Last year I supported efforts in Congress to increase funding for industry cost-shared programs to help extend the life of the current fleet of reactors.

I am very concerned about the proposed budget cuts to the advanced reactor program and for a number of reasons.

I am shocked, Secretary Lyons, that you would tell us that operating on a CR has implications for agencies out there.

$8-a-gallon gasoline makes them afraid. It is a cruel tax on the people of north Mississippi.

Frankly, I don't want to see defense nuclear waste be an orphan left at places that it currently is.

I am glad to see somebody else brought up Yucca Mountain first.

It is a cloud hanging over economic development and job creation.

I think that is the law of the land. It hasn't been changed.

Yes, they will play an important part.

The only thing the NRC has going for it is credibility. Under your leadership, that credibility has been diminished.

The relationship between you and the other commissioners has been damaging to the reputation of the NRC.

I believe it is a very important program, and that is another program where, again, in an austere budget, we tried to keep that as high as possible.

I am, frankly, disappointed that we are seeing reductions in small modular reactors.

If you are going to push it forward, then push it forward.

If you will remember back to the beginning of WIPP, Congress had to force WIPP on Carlsbad.

You just can't declare something at the executive branch that it is no longer the law.