John Shimkus

This is not a partisan debate by Members of the House of Representatives.

We need an all-of-the-above energy strategy.

And part of this debate about the nuclear waste and where it's stored and the nuclear waste fund has been litigated in Federal court, and the courts have said it is the responsibility of the national government to take this waste as part…

If my colleague would continue to discuss this for a few minutes, you mentioned a fund in your kind of opening statement. For the benefit of the Speaker, could you explain where this fund comes from and who is paying into it and what is it…

The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established Yucca Mountain as the national repository for high-level nuclear waste. And, again, for the educational purposes, Mr. Speaker, that is spent fuel. Sometimes it's spent nuclear waste from our…

The reason this is important is, unfortunately, due to Fukushima Daiichi in Japan, which is a great tragedy. A lot of people think about the containment issue, which has always been the fear. Part of the Fukushima Daiichi problem was the…

Can you tell me the disposition of what's going on with the Zion Power Plant? What's going on there right now?

My colleague is correct. We've already spent about $14.5 billion dollars in the research, the development, the exploration, the testing. A lot of money, time, effort, and some of our greatest minds have been involved. I don't really think…

This is the fight that he should have for jobs, 20,000 jobs.

I am standing with labor, and I am standing with jobs.

I think we are talking about making consent easier, where we understand the business relationship more defined...

What we have done in the national healthcare law has attacked the very providers of healthcare and social services for the poor in this country, which are church, faith-based institutions.

If we would like to work on Medicaid dollars following the individual and not incentivizing institutional care, and freeing up the disabled to choose the areas where they want to live and how they want to live, I am willing to work with…

I am not gleeful that CLASS got shelved, but I am kind of relieved because of the--it was actuarially unsound.

Mr. Shimkus, you are very cavalier with the lives of rural America and agricultural America.

The fear factor that my friend mentioned, one of your statements in your opening statement said 'at this time.'

Do you agree that concentrated particulate matter can be harmful to human health?

All I am trying to do is grow peaches, I have been doing that for five generations, how hard can it be.

I want to have that on the record because that is part of this whole debate of the concern of ratcheting it down.

I seek time in opposition. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois is recognized for 5 minutes.

I want to again thank the ranking member for accepting this, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus). The amendment was agreed to…

I appreciate the ranking member's accepting the amendment. We do think it improves the bill. I would like to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gene Green).

Again to my colleague and friend from West Virginia, my amendment in no way reduces the administrator's authority to take into account facility capabilities. That authority is unchanged by both my amendment and your underlying bill. Mr…

To my friend from West Virginia, my response is that it does not. My amendment keeps that door to EPA alternative regulation closed and locked. The language the gentleman cites merely references law that is already on the books, as you…

I thank the gentleman. I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1 minute remaining, and the gentleman from Illinois has 4 minutes remaining.