He has been very, very helpful on movement of this, and we are hopeful we will get to some agreement in the future.

I would call on the commissioners to enact civil disobedience and disregard the chairman's edict.

I feel they should, we would have a little more clarity and a little more strength.

We are in a much better place than we were, obviously, 2 years ago.

I thank the gentleman for the time to speak on the rule. Our process for a bill to get to the floor is it has to go through the Rules Committee. This was a very, very important bill. It was interesting in the debate, listening to the…

The Nuclear Policy Act is a conjunction of both spent fuel and defense waste. There is no bifurcation of where nuclear waste goes.

I wish, for the sake of the republic, that the administration would abide by the law.

It is unfortunate that you have been part of an administration that is not enforcing the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.

I really appreciate Ranking Member Pallone's comments, because I do have frustrations with that and elder law attorneys who try to find these ways to protect assets when those assets should be used.

And that makes it mandatory because they are entitled to the coverage.

It does take an act of Congress to transfer lands and buildings, and that is kind of what we are doing here today, so I rise in support of this bill. It is a very simple bill that is going to benefit the VA there in Danville, but also the…

part of the national debt is our promises to pay entitled people with mandatory spending.

the intent of the legislation in the 2005 energy bill was to set a new threshold for a dollar amount when the Commission should be involved.

Well, thank you. Because as you know, Ranking Member Eshoo and I, we have been really focused on the PSAPs' evolution over the time and I am sure we will be looking at it closely to make sure that we are not stumbling over each other but…

I appreciate the chairman's leadership. The gentleman knows how hard I work in supporting freedom and of my opposition to totalitarian regimes. Yesterday, Mr. Speaker, we passed H.R. 757, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act…

I have voted over 60 times to repeal or to replace all or portions of ObamaCare. I have voted numerous times to defund Planned Parenthood. These issues have always been held up by the parliamentary rules in the Senate, which is the ability…

I want to thank my colleague from North Dakota and just say a couple things. First of all, what we have done on the omnibus is great public policy. Crude oil is a commodity like corn and beans that should be sold on the world market…

I look forward to hearing from NARUC today about their experience with the Nuclear Waste Fund.

This subcommittee is continuing to examine specific challenges managing used fuel and national defense waste.

As we hear talk of bills on the floor and international climate meetings with the world community, I want to bring to my colleagues' attention and to you, Mr. Speaker, the real destruction that is going on in the fossil fuel areas of our…

The courts found DOE's required financial projections absolutely useless, and based on pie-in-the-sky analysis.

Budgetary and funding challenges have been further complicated by President Obama's legally dubious decision to walk away from Yucca Mountain.

The State of Mississippi has led in this legislation from our former colleague, now-Senator Roger Wicker. I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Harper), the author on the House side of the committee.

There is a lot to be done on infrastructure, and safe drinking water is among those important things. My district is very large and rural, with 33 counties in southern Illinois. This bill will help. We need to do what we can now, and…

So should this occur in an organized wholesale capacity and energy markets subject to your jurisdiction?