Retaliation and intimidation of Congressional witnesses is illegal and will not be tolerated.

People who try to hide problems or minimize their existence usually face a swifter and more ferocious corrective response from Congress and the public than if they had simply come clean.

In my time serving in Congress, I have learned, as oftentimes is the case, that the initial problem isn't as big a deal to people as a poor explanation of a problem can be.

When problems are hid, you are going to face a swifter and more ferocious corrective response by Congress.

The program is too important to our national security to be this much in distress.

Further, cover-ups are the best hope of people who know they are in the wrong and the worst move for those who get found out.

I do think that your report is going to help us in the political arena make a decision on what to do.

I got frustrated at the end when they kept stating how we have failed to act.

So it was Secretary Chu who said do not consider Yucca Mountain in the Blue Ribbon Commission report?

I think it is safe to say that because one U.S. Senator doesn't want the site, that is not speaking for the locals.

My stated position is this President and this majority leader have failed to comply with the law.

I would argue that the Federal Government is a local entity here, the Federal Government, we are the locals, we own the land.

Now, we got a problem, we got a problem in this country that is very, very difficult to solve.

Don't you think a final scientific report might help educate the locals and develop a consent-based approach?

As a result of our successful defense programs, and as contractual obligations to taxpayers and consumers who have invested billions of dollars and counting, we, as a Federal Government, have responsibilities to permanently dispose of…

I have got thousands of my State people getting this ready to ship to Yucca and it is going to be all dressed up and no place to go.

I am very unhappy and disappointed that they were constrained so due to the political actions of this administration.

The House has spoken numerous times that it is the will of the House that we move forward on Yucca Mountain.

Nothing in this report forecloses Yucca Mountain as a potential suitable site, correct?

I want to underscore this, because you address a lot on this consent-based approach, right.

The reality is Yucca Mountain not only fulfills our commitment to the American taxpayers to secure high-level nuclear waste as required by law, but makes a commitment to the people in Nevada to turn around a struggling economy and…

I believe that a consent-based site selection process is not just good government, it is a frank concession to reality.

I think they do know what they need to do, long-term geological repository; they do know how to do it because Yucca Mountain is there to do it.

Knowing what this country has gone through to get where it is today not to consider this site and move forward on it I think is a terrible mistake.

I have been very concerned about capital research fleeing the United States because of the FDA's slowness.