"The decision to halt the Yucca Mountain license application and review is politics at its worst at its highest levels."
"I will have to run this all through Chairman Upton."
"I will lay my body down on those railroad tracks to prevent any train that has nuclear waste in it from going to Yucca Mountain."
"It is time for the Administration to follow the letter of the law... and to bring the Yucca Mountain project online."
"The law says further that DOE shall file an application for a license to construct the repository, correct?"
"Let us have an interim strategy we can all agree on. Let us try to work together on that."
"And so we appreciate your being here and we appreciate a local voice in this debate on what the local citizens want to do."
"And that law is still valid, correct?"
"Although I am not a lawyer, it would seem to me the department is not following the law."
"So the issue is affordable, accessible, quality catastrophic coverage, unencumbered by things that you may not want to have covered."
"Well, it will be if you determine what is in the essential package."
"Because there is no timeline. And when you don't have a timeline and you raise capital to assume risk..."