"I can guarantee you the only outcome of that will be that we have more debt and higher deficits because of that kind of irresponsible behavior."
"I think we've got to realize how much damage we are doing to ourselves."
"It would be easier to negotiate an outcome here if we knew what we were negotiating about."
"I think for the purpose of the average consumer, if they're looking at Western Atlantic bluefin tuna, and they believe stocks to be down 80 percent from where they were historically... they don't feel..."
"Earlier this year, I introduced S. 753 with Senator Tom Udall and Senator John Cornyn to reflect a 3-party agreement."
"Thank you, Chairman and Ranking Member Murkowski for holding this hearing today."
"If we move so aggressively forward on storage and we don't address the steps needed to get to a permanent geological repository those communities could end up being de facto permanent storage."
"I think that's something that I've heard consistently over and over again from the community of Los Alamos and the surrounding communities, how important that is to their history."
"I think this is a healthy discussion."
"I can't tell you how many soccer fields and baseball diamonds and other things have been funded across the Nation with that effort."
"You've got to wonder if the point is to bridge the valley of death, but there's this incredible resistance to taking on any sort of risk."
"We're seeing more and more demand, less and less supply."