We need to streamline that somehow because we need to have energy development on these Indian reservations as well.

Well, at this point, we are not talking about the Reliable Replacement Weapon, or the RRW program, but we are talking about stockpile stewardship, which I understand is increasingly reliant on science.

The cloture vote just started, just an observation.

bad ideas have unlimited shelf life here in the Nation's capital, and also that bad ideas are bipartisan.

Given what has happened in the world in recent days, weeks, months, it seems to me that the issue of nuclear non-proliferation is unbelievably important.

We have had testimony from some laboratory directors about the substantial increased cost of the contracts to supervise these laboratories.

But pure fusion consumes its waste, doesn't it?

Considering the age of the stockpile and non-proliferation treaties, do you think keeping the LANSCE facility operating in the future will be important for the country?

Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Dorgan played key roles in obtaining this new rulemaking authority for the FTC.

the levee option would then represent the only option that would meet the Federal cost-benefit ratio test.

We must recognize the tremendous risk and cost associated with every year that passes without protection in place.