Jeff Bingaman: “I hope we can benefit from learning from what others, including Japan are doing in this regard.”

I think there's an agreement that we need a permanent geologic repository.

I thank my colleague Senator Leahy. Madam President, what is the pending business before the Senate now? Is it an amendment to this legislation? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Amendment No. 3371 is the pending business. Amendment No…

in 1981, in his first inaugural address, President Reagan said: Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. I came to the Senate 2 years later in 1983 with the firm belief that in most cases his statement was…

We ought to be encouraging that. That should not be something that we just do for 3 years or 5 years.