Jeff Bingaman: “Your recent sponsorship of the Nuclear Power 2021 Act, and the hearing you will hold on December 15 regarding S.2052 and…”

We fully support Chairman Bingaman's caution that any temporary storage facility must not become a permanent one.

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

It's important that we have a person with substantial knowledge and many varied skills in order to succeed.

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…