Political Quotes

“I enjoyed listening to my Republican colleagues talk about the Constitution and how a bill becomes a law. I taught freshman civics. And when a bill passes both Chambers, the bill then goes to the President. The President then signs a bill. It becomes a law. The job of the Chief Executive is to enforce the law, as signed and as passed. Like the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, it is the law of the land. The amendments passed in 1987 identified Yucca Mountain as the sole geological repository for nuclear waste in this country. The problem is, it's not being enforced by the President, who is complicit with the majority leader in the Senate, Senator Reid, in stopping the project. So over the past year, I have been coming down to the floor and identifying where we're at on the status of what do we do with high- level nuclear waste. And I have gone through the whole country. I have identified all the Senators and where they stand. We actually have a majority of Senators--55 of them--who support high-level nuclear waste being stored at Yucca Mountain. We have 23 that either have made statements of ``no'' or 22 that we don't know their position. Can you imagine being a U.S. Senator on a very important position, never having to state your position on what to do with high-level nuclear waste or defense waste, especially if it's in your own State, and never being forced to come to a position.…”