Political Quotes

“I want to thank the Rules Committee for bringing this bill to the floor tomorrow. I appreciate the due diligence they did on scrutinizing those amendments that could be additive to it and also the one from my colleague, Representative Titus, so we can really put aside this debate on a consensus-based issue because we need to help educate the American people. We need to help educate our colleagues. In the State of Nevada, 90 percent of all the land is owned by the Federal Government, and a big portion of that is at this location. When people say ``not in my backyard,'' we think they are talking about the Rayburn Building. Not in my backyard, in this debate, we are talking about Baltimore. But in between here and Baltimore, there is desert; and in the 60-mile radius is a fenced-in enclosure where we used to set off atomic weapons and groundbursts. So there is a place in this land that is called Yucca Flats, and some of us have seen that. Yucca Flats is where we did atomic testing. We need to make sure people understand this debate. Big area of land, Federal Government, really, the local consensus is us. It is the Federal Government. We are the landowners of this property. This is a tough decision. No one wants nuclear waste or defense waste. I am glad my colleague, Mr. Newhouse, is managing this bill, because I have been out to his location. In Hanford, we have a lot of defense waste there. So what are we trying to do?…”