Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 1, strike line 1 and all that follows through the end of the Rules Committee Print, and insert the following: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act, the terms ``affected Indian tribe'', ``affected unit of local government'', ``high-level radioactive waste'', ``repository'', ``Secretary'', ``spent nuclear fuel'', ``unit of general local government'', and ``Waste Fund'' have the meanings given the terms in section 2 of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10101). SEC. 3. CONSENT BASED APPROVAL. (a) In General.--The Secretary may not make an expenditure from the Waste Fund for the costs of the activities described in paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 302(d) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222(d)) unless the Secretary has entered into an agreement to host a repository with-- (1) the Governor of the State in which the repository is proposed to be located; (2) each affected unit of local government; (3) any unit of general local government contiguous to the affected unit of local government if spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste will be transported through that unit of general local government for disposal at the repository; and (4) each affected Indian tribe.…”