Yes. I think I briefly tried to show this article from The Salt Lake Tribune, dated December 8, which talks about some of the reactor parts that are going to go out to Utah. What the article ends up saying is: The site will not, however…

It's great to get a chance to come back down to the floor to visit with my colleagues and talk about an issue that I've been raising seven or eight weeks in a row. I'll have a little more extended time to go over what has transpired over…

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

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

It's always great to follow the highly respected minority whip, and he is highly respected. I would say that there are a lot of pressing problems in this country. There is one I'll speak about today, and that's the high-level nuclear waste…

I come down to the floor once a week to talk about the high level of nuclear waste in this country and the fact that this country still doesn't have a single repository to store high- level nuclear waste. Throughout this last year, I've…

In today's Reuters report, ``Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday urged claimants to the South China Sea not to resort to intimidation to push their cause in the potentially oil-rich waters, an indirect reference to China ahead of…

Before my freshman colleagues get too concerned, I am only going to go a couple of minutes to talk about why I have been coming to the floor once each week for a whole debate on high-level nuclear waste and a national repository that is…

Canadian oil sands transported via pipelines play a major role in supplying the energy needs of southern Illinois. Two weeks ago, I visited the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, and here is exactly what we saw. On Monday of this week, I…

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

Reclaiming my time, as my colleagues know, Senator Kirk is strongly in support of moving high-level nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain. Senator Durbin said the right things. We just want him now to lead on that issue for the importance of the…

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.

This is my third time on the floor to talk about high-level nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain. I started talking about Hanford, which is in Washington State, comparing it to the Yucca facility. In Hanford, 53 million gallons of nuclear…

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

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…

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?

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

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

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

I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce) to speak in support of the bill.

I will just tell my friend from Florida, H.R. 2273 includes structural integrity inspection requirements on impoundments that do not exist today. They allow only those facilities that are structurally sound and operating in a protective…

Just to my friend from Minnesota, I would quote the United Mine Workers letter that says: According to a June study, there's an estimate of the 183,000 to 363,000 possible job losses if we do not pass this bill. So for those who really…

I just want to remind my colleagues that they will be interested to know the EPA noted in its June 2010 proposed regulation for coal combustion residuals that municipal solid waste rules provide an appropriate, comprehensive framework for…

To my friend from Virginia, he is correct that some States have laxer standards. In fact, your Governor sent us a letter in which I quote, ``H.R. 2273 is a realistic approach to dealing with CCR, although it would require effort to…