I hope you will be very aggressive about telling us where you think there are the holes, the loopholes in the law that need to be filled.

I wanted to receive assurances from you that you will continue to focus on that commitment and make sure those resources are forthcoming.

I would like a commitment from you that once you are confirmed, that you take a close look at these three issues, ongoing cleanup, worker health, and property damage claims.

I look forward to supporting your confirmation on the Senate floor when that occurs.

Again, I want to emphasize that by doing so, then we will send a message to other workers in other parts of the country that as we clean up places like Hanford, we work in Ohio and Oklahoma and South Carolina, Nevada, that those promises…

I hope we look at the full costs here in terms of all of our energy sources.

Now, my understanding, when we talk about whether we list it under RCRA, is that we are dealing with hazardous substances here.

So what eventually is going to happen with these substances? What is your plan you have right now to deal with these thousands and thousands of pounds of toxic substances and hazardous substances?

I think it is tremendously important that when we look at the cost of coal or renewable energy or nuclear we look at the full costs that are out there.

I want to commit, like Senator Alexander did, to make sure that the victims are made whole on this.

Every time you fill your tank, 40 percent of your gasoline bill goes to foreign oil--an oil dependence tax on consumers that it is likely to go up in the future as oil supplies diminish.

The era of cheap oil is over, and fossil fuels are unsustainable.