Political Quotes

“my friend, the ranking member, the former chairman of the committee, said the only question is what kind of facility. Well, that really is not the only question. But, in fact, if that were the only question, why in the world would you want to site in South Carolina, no matter what kind of facility, a reactor accelerator? If the Secretary of Energy is going to make this decision late summer/early fall, why would Congress want to meddle with what is already in the process of being decided? If there were ever an example of congressional meddling, this certainly would be it. Mr. President, this is a big project. I am reading from one newspaper: The new tritium production facility would be the Nation's first since the 1960's. Cost estimates range as high as $10 billion, and the project could create more than 2,000 jobs. In the other body, something like this was tried and, again, I read from the Energy Daily of June 1995, where over there it was referred to as 'radioactive pork.' Well, thank goodness the House in its wisdom got rid of that radioactive pork, and that was deleted from their legislation. If the Savannah River site is so good, why do they not let it compete on its merits? If the threat that I heard--namely, if the Department of Energy sites it someplace else, we will take a look at it in conference. This is a threat to the Secretary to site it on the Savannah River, or we will take care of it in conference. That is wrong.…”