Harry Reid: “if there is anyone in this body who is concerned about dollars and budgetary numbers, they should be concerned about…”

“if there is anyone in this body who is concerned about dollars and budgetary numbers, they should be concerned about what is taking place here. They should run from this bill. This is another reason that we should be so thankful we have a constitutional form of government and we have a President who is willing to veto bad legislation. This is bad legislation, getting worse every hour we spend on this floor. Now the numbers are changing. We are not talking about a few dollars here and a few dollars there; we are talking about $2.7 billion that the ratepayers are going to have to cough up early. This is another example of the gluttonous nuclear utilities taking advantage of the general public. We know we do not have the numbers, as has been proven, because the utilities seem to have a lock on this bill. They are the ones marching it through this Congress. But 16 blocks away, on Pennsylvania Avenue, we have someone who is going to veto this legislation. That is all we have left, because it is very clear that the nuclear utilities have a lock on this legislation that is getting worse by the hour.”