Angie Craig: “another area that is significant in this bill--and I will be talking later about a variety of the approaches we have…”

“another area that is significant in this bill--and I will be talking later about a variety of the approaches we have taken--is the area of nuclear energy, without question one of the cleanest forms of energy out there. There are no emissions. There has always been a concern about waste management and the waste stream that comes from nuclear plants, but we also have recognized our ability to manage it and other nations' ability to manage that waste stream in a responsible fashion. In this bill, we clearly incentivize the marketplace to get back into the business of electrical production through nuclear generation. We have even proposed a new reactor concept called a passive generation 4 reactor, and also we will tie to that an electrolysis process to produce hydrogen, to begin to fuel this new exciting initiative which our President led in saying the transportation fuel of the future ought to be hydrogen. Why? We can produce it, and we can produce a lot of it. We ought not be producing it from natural gas; we ought to be producing it from water. Let natural gas heat space. Don't ask natural gas to generate electricity or create hydrogen. That is not the way to use natural gas. That is part of what has driven the cost of it up. So another new initiative. While anyone can stand on the floor and pick at the pieces, look at the whole.”