Political Quotes

“I think everyone recognizes that the end result is the same. We could have done a lot of parliamentary things and exhausted the Senate, but I think what the two leaders have come up with is fair. In effect, the point was made earlier today when we got 34 votes that we felt were critical on this issue. Mr. President, this issue is important. It is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the issue of transportation of nuclear waste. The fact of the matter is that those States that have nuclear waste, if they think by some stretch of the imagination by this bill passing it is going to get nuclear waste out of the States, it is not going to do it. The nuclear reactors have nuclear waste in them now, and they will continue to have nuclear waste in them as long as they are producing energy, and long thereafter. The fact is that the transportation of nuclear waste is a difficult issue. In 1982, when the Nuclear Waste Policy Act passed, there was discussion at that time that there was no way to transport the nuclear waste.”