Edward Markey actually said...

"It always has been and it continues to be where we kind of preach temperance but from a bar stool, saying do not do it, but yet here, once again, we are going to allow Norway to take our materials and..."

"It is about a precedent that is set. It is about further momentum which is created towards a reprocessing world that ultimately increases the likelihood of these nuclear materials falling into the han..."

"What concerns me is that by allowing Norway to export our spent nuclear fuel to other countries for reprocessing, we are as a country promoting a technology that is bad for nonproliferation."

"As Senator Markey has already noted, it has one clause that is not in every 123 agreement but that is far from unprecedented."