"This bill will direct the Secretary of Energy to re-enrich these tails and sell them at a profit for the government."
"I want your 1,200 workers to keep their jobs, keep their pension, and for us to repay the extraordinary contribution that they made, to pay them for that."
"The minority leader's presence here today speaks to the importance of today's hearing on Chairman Whitfield's legislation to the good people of the great State of Kentucky."
"I hope and expect that we will be able to move this bill through this committee in a collegial and a bipartisan manner."
"I want to see these uranium tails disposed of, and I want to see the American people gain something from the sale of them, if they are to be sold."
"Don't you think that it is within the power of the Members of Congress to ensure that your experience is not realized"
"It seems like we are rushing to get this done and we are trying to direct DOE, force DOE to do something that may not be in the interest of the American taxpayer in the long run."
"But I don't want to just give one company the sole authority to deal with this significant problem that we are faced with as a Nation."
"This bill represents the type of legislation that advances the security interests of all Americans and shows what can be accomplished when we choose to work together in a bipartisan manner."
"I think we support that."
"What I am hearing here is that in the event of an imminent, severe, catastrophic cyber attack on the electrical grid system here in this country where there could be vast harm done to the American peo..."