It is good to be on the floor with my good friend and colleague, the ranking member, Congressman Pallone. I know his heart is solid and I know he believes that we are challenging some privacy concerns, and I take that in the spirit…

It is great to be here tonight to talk about something that we have talked about quite a bit. I am glad to see the gentleman has, obviously, the LNG terminal and the Lithuanian- flagged Independence. I also brought it down. I don't have to…

On the week of the Congressional baseball game, one in which I will wear the uniform of the St. Louis Cardinals, I rise today to honor the life and career of Major League Baseball player Albert Fred ``Red'' Schoendienst, who passed away…

In my opinion, CFATS has had four uninterrupted years to course correct and these are threshold questions that must be addressed in evaluating whether CFATS is a worthwhile investment for the United States taxpayer.

Are these new requirements advisable as a legally enforceable part of this program, filling a security gap that does not exist or are they merely an additive burden without security benefits?

Let me be clear what this amendment does. This is 1,000 pages of the safety and evaluation report by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission--5 volumes. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is our independent safety agency on all things nuclear…

I am glad this amendment came, because our job now is to educate, not only the State of Nevada, but it is also to educate our colleagues from across the country that the science debate, the final decision needs to be through the licensing…

I thank my colleagues from Nevada for allowing us to have this debate once again. Two weeks ago, we had this debate on the floor of the House. We had a pretty good vote, a bipartisan vote: 340 of our colleagues supported continuing to move…

This is a fishbone in the throat of the European Union and the Baltic States.

When Congress directed the Department to partner with the State of New York to remediate this site, Congress explicitly prohibited DOE from acquiring title to any high-level radioactive waste at the site.

Based on the estimated work remaining and the timelines associated with DOE's waste management program, it seems that the best and the most expeditious disposal path available to the State of New York is to have the Senate consider the…

If you don't want it there, you have to have a place to go.

We are asking these questions obviously to put in the record but also try to figure out how we move forward.

Enactment of H.R. 3053 would break the current impasse on our nation's nuclear waste management program and provide a path to complete the Yucca Mountain repository.

I would like to thank all our witnesses today.

Without a national solution, you will be an interim site forever, right? And no one wants that.

In order to provide more certainty to the NSR program, the discussion draft takes the hourly rate test used by the NSPS program.

I'd like to thank Congressman Morgan Griffith for the good work he has done on this bill.

The fact that the New Source Review program can be a barrier to projects that would result in better air quality is unacceptable.

The goal of this discussion draft is to add greater certainty to the New Source Review permitting process.

The discussion draft before us today reforms the New Source Review program by clarifying which types of facility upgrades require an owner to obtain a New Source Review permit.

This is disappointing because it means we are missing out on opportunities to increase the Nation's industrial capacity to create more American jobs and to improve our environment.

The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy will now come to order.

I am doing that because I don't like to say NSPS and NSR all the time.

The end result of this regulatory confusion and enforcement risk is that many companies are choosing to not modernize.