Mike Simpson

These people are ready to hand you the keys to their cities and say the heck with it.

Every one of the meetings turned into a 'what the hell is EPA doing' meeting.

I do not think a lot of people think it is settled science.

Twenty percent becomes a pretty good level for that, but I have a whole bunch of questions that we will ask later.

At some point in time we have got to say, 'have we lost our minds?'

The people are saying, why are we spending this ungodly amount of money to reduce our arsenic levels from twelve to ten and sometimes eleven to ten.

It appears to be on life support in the Senate, and I do not believe it could pass the House again today.

The people are even less ready and willing now than in the recent past.

The Supreme Court did not force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases.

I cannot help feeling weary about the way in which EPA is implementing broad regulatory changes.

I am hopeful that you will take me up on my offer to come out and visit our great state.

Nobody wants to work with us to try to solve any of these problems.

We cannot do what you are asking us to do.

This makes no sense.

I am very concerned about the administration's budget for proceeding with the licensing proposal.

The elephant in the back of the room that nobody is willing to say is that a promise was made during the campaign to Senator Reid by then candidate Obama.

I admire all of your testimony and the Secretary's also.

The Judgment Fund is paying?

Should DOE be paying that instead of the Judgment Fund?

If we zero funded the license application I suspect that would be one of the first things.

But we have no alternative out there. The alternative is more studies.

Why the heck should I spend $197 million to proceed with a license application for something we are going to terminate?

I would think that it would be more than just a presidential decision not to do it.

And what I am frustrated by is the amount of money we continue to spend on a project, get it to a license application point, and then in a matter of six weeks decide, 'Ah, we will focus on something else.'

What I am advocating for is a permanent geological repository.