What we have said is that, pursuant to the Security Council resolution, those funds are held in trust for a future democratic government of Libya.

If I remember the debate on this, the push for Yucca Mountain came from the private sector.

So, if I can for a second, but correct me if I'm wrong, I understood, during the debate on Yucca Mountain that it was agreed that the ultimate responsibility for storing this nuclear waste was to be borne by the government taxpayers.

I have to ask and bring up a question which came up at our hearing. What about the situation with reprocessing?

Wouldn't this be our Government responsibility?

So it is hard for me to imagine how we have a future in the United States without substantial expansion of nuclear power.

If I can just do one followup question, because when I raised the issue of reprocessing I thought the chairman's allusion was to the economics of it.

My last question, I am sorry Madam Chair, but taking the current French approach on reprocessing, are you saying that we have done an economic model to compare the cost of reprocessing against the cost of a national repository?

In February the House passed an appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 that proposed cutting the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget by $1.6 billion or 5 percent compared to NIH's fiscal year 2010 budget.

for 32 years the nuclear power industry has really been stymied, frozen in place with virtually no major expansion

And so when you say that the commercial private sector does not support reprocessing, it would seem to me that we ought to be asking, from the taxpayer's viewpoint, whether that is an economic alternative if we are ever to build Yucca…

I will have a longer statement for the Record because I know Senator Hutchison is waiting, but I want to make one or two comments about Geraldine Ferraro.

First, my image of Geraldine Ferraro is this young Congresswoman from California, with her arms outstretched, as you raced toward one another in an iconic photograph of the two of you after she won the Vice Presidential nomination. I will…

an incredible woman died this week after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer. Geraldine Ferraro led a trailblazing life, constantly achieving and proving the naysayers wrong. She was one of two women in her graduating class from…

I think that we condemn prejudice and bigotry against all religious groups.

I announce that the Senator from Hawaii (Mr. Inouye), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Menendez), the Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Nelson), and the Senator from West Virginia (Mr. Rockefeller) are necessarily absent.

What I hope this hearing has suggested is that among the millions of Muslim Americans, the overwhelming majority are patriotic, law-abiding people who simply want to live their lives as we all do in this great and free country.

I cannot quarrel with anyone who argues that we have a threat of terrorism and have to deal with it honestly.

on March 22, countries around the world will celebrate World Water Day--a day to mark the progress we have made protecting this most important resource and to reflect on the many challenges we still face in providing clean, safe water to…

I usually do not get up in the morning and race to read the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. It is not part of my morning routine. I do not agree with them on most of the positions they have taken and I have found many times the…

we are in morning business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. We are.

much of the world's recent attention has understandably been on the Middle East--and of course this week on the terrible situation with one of America's closest allies--Japan. I understand that USAID has sent disaster relief teams to help…

The Democratic side is now recognized? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. They are.

How much time is remaining? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. There is 25 minutes 47 seconds. ____________________

I announce that the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) is necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) would vote ``yea.''