"Now, my concern, though, is is that we are racing ahead, but there are certain laws of physics."
"In effect, there is going to be a postmortem done on that accident and folks are going to go in there and see what went wrong."
"Do I understand the new nuclear power plants or do I not understand correctly that they have to be built so that if there is a terrorist attack and a plane is driven into them that somehow it is still..."
"Now, let me ask because when I toured the nuclear power plant near my home--I am from Louisiana so it is the River Bend Nuclear Power Plant--and as I recall they were coming up with a failsafe mechani..."
"Knowing that we are not speculating on what happened in Japan but just to go to the point, the backup generators, to keep those cooling units running, we have proactively addressed this in this countr..."
"It seems as if we are sending out something which the folks who are employed in that field have good jobs with good benefits."
"Now, I have here that we have been in the 8-hour ozone standard for over 3 years, and this has been communicated to region 6, that apparently two of the five criteria to be designated attainment area ..."
"It is sort of like Waiting for Godot, it never happens."
"Now, part of our issue is, how do we restore in part the distribution of the sediment from the Mississippi River to rebuild our vanishing coastline?"
"If all we are given is a place for people to vent their prejudices, how does that advance our cause?"
"But my question is, frankly I have found in this Committee we are guided often by prejudice as opposed to science."