Political Quotes

Thank you, Senator and Chairman Bingaman for this opportunity to testify on the critically important issue of climate change.

We believe that steps towards implementation of near-term proposals that do not have to wait for comprehensive legislative action would be a clear and unmistakable signal that the Administration and Congress are willing to take the difficult yet necessary measures to put our nation's nuclear waste management program back on track and enable its success.

We applaud the general thrust. But any consent based approach will enjoy a higher probability of success if Congress removes the Atomic Energy Act's exemptions.

I think all of us, if we were choosing a Secretary of Energy, would want to choose somebody with those attributes.