Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I thank the ranking member for allowing me to speak on my amendment. It is a bipartisan amendment expressing the sense of Congress that we should not permanently store nuclear waste near the Great Lakes. My amendment responds to the Government of Canada's recent plans to build a facility that would permanently hold thousands of tons of high- level nuclear waste in the Great Lakes Basin, the greatest source of freshwater known to mankind. Permanently storing hazardous nuclear waste so close to our Great Lakes does not make any sense at all. A potential accident involving nuclear waste would threaten the drinking water of millions of people in the United States and Canada and jeopardize thousands of jobs in the fishing, boating, and tourism industries. Surely, absolutely, there must be a safer location to permanently store radioactive waste than adjacent to the world's greatest source of freshwater. My amendment, which is included in this en bloc, has strong bipartisan support, and it would be an important step in protecting the Great Lakes. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this en bloc.”