John Dingell: “You have, first of all, Mr. Larsen, given us a very good statement today.”

I would like to begin with a parochial matter.

I raise this issue today because the NRC will soon be considering a proposal to dispose of this waste in a nearby mill site.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is a public-friendly institution.

The goal Congress set then was unparalleled in all of history. Our country resolved to put an end to the decades--indeed, centuries--of neglect that had resulted in the extinction of the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, and the…