Harry Reid: “not only do we have Government agencies opposing this legislation, we have already established that the scientific…”

“not only do we have Government agencies opposing this legislation, we have already established that the scientific community opposes this legislation. When this legislation was established, it was determined that there should be some nonpartisan, scientific group that could give the Congress and the President a scientific view as to what was happening on nuclear waste. The Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board was established, and a group of scientists were selected. The chairman of this group is from prestigious Yale University. He is a dean at one of the schools there. They have said, do not support this legislation, interim storage of nuclear waste should not be. Mr. President, in addition to scientists, we also have environmental groups all over the country who oppose this legislation. So I guess I would say to the Chair and those within the sound of my voice, which position would you support? The position of the monopolistic nuclear utilities, the nuclear power lobby? Or the scientific community unions, like the United Transportation Union, environmentalists, and churches? I would say, first glance and second glance and third glance, you would go along with the churches, scientists and the environmentalists.”