However, their unilateral actions will increase America's electricity bills, decrease family disposable income and result in real job losses for little or no measurable impact on our ever changing climate.

The only thing missing from this strategy is an empty promise from the President. If you like your affordable energy, you can keep your affordable energy.

In reality, that is a complete red herring. States are forced into achieving questionable emission reduction targets from a limited menu of economically damaging and legally questionable options.

Years ago when this first started, a lot of us believed it was true because that was what was supposed to be believed.

I just point that out because that is one of the most common rallying cries about this cartoonish debate, severe weather.

The science and economic consequences and legal underpinnings of the EPA's actions to advance the President's climate action plan are topics the Administration does not want to discuss in detail.

However, it is defined so broadly that all or virtually all the Republican members of this committee would be among the 97 percent.

Standing alone, the June 16, 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement appears worthy of celebration.

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I want to commend the Commission for basing their recent vote to eliminate further generic assessments to expedite the transfer of spent fuel from pools to dry storage on facts and sound science.

Thank you, Chairman Boxer, for convening today's hearing and I want to thank our NRC commissioners for your work, your dedication and for being here to testify.

I am not suggesting that, but it does seem reasonable that there is a significant difference between a nuclear plant that is operating and a nuclear plant that is shut down.

Today, I want to urge our commissioners to be precise and direct with your thoughts on these initiatives.

The obvious question is, why not?

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While the President's efforts to kill coal fire generation are obvious and already underway, I am really concerned about another and somewhat more subversive and under cover effort which is ongoing to really cripple the nuclear industry.

I want to reState what I said. The Chairman was sort of suggesting that I was saying that a decommissioned site, a run of the mill industrial site doesn't need concern, doesn't need a lot of careful regulation.

I think that would really be unfortunate.

I am concerned that taking so long to move on in that area really clutters your table and doesn't allow you to properly focus on the Tier 1 recommendations, the high priority recommendations.

I would urge the Commission to face that.

I think it is a lot of semantics being used, quite frankly, to confuse and scare the public.

It is also my understanding that staff has studied the safety of the pools ten times now and has consistently concluded that the fuel pools are safe.