Will the Senator inform me and the rest of the Senate where the 150 miles an hour information comes from?

if anyone has any question about where the money is on this issue, where the big lobbyists stand, all we need to do is walk out this set of doors to my right prior to the next vote being called and you will find a sea of lobbyists. This is…

This is pure doubletalk. The fact of the matter is that the weapon that they used to test was a device designed to destroy reinforced concrete pillars and piers. The weapon was not designed to destroy a structure like a nuclear waste…

First, this is a good deal for the proponents of this bill. They want to waive all the environmental laws, and they are saying the reason is because people might want to appeal, they might be protecting their rights, which is what you can…

I want to personally extend my appreciation to our leader, who spent a great deal of time with the majority leader trying to work this out. I think it shows good faith that we are trying to move things over here. We feel comfortable with…

Mr. President, I, first of all, want to talk about what some of the people have said who support this legislation. First of all, the supporters of S. 1936 are appealing to States with nuclear powerplants or nuclear operations, implying…

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…

I remind everyone in this Chamber of the charts Chairman Murkowski showed us earlier. They show nuclear waste stored in 80 sites across America. They show another chart with one site, the Nevada test site, and they claim that all the waste…

Mr. President, in our open society, which is our national heritage and the essence of America, we cannot deny our enemies many of the same freedoms we ourselves enjoy. There are, as well, many foreign interests, some secret, that will want…

I do have the right to object. I think there has been an objection. I say respectfully to my friend the majority leader and to the minority leader, we have an obligation to move legislation along here. We agree with the statement of the…

I wrote the first taxpayer bill of rights that passed. I authored that. It was through the good offices of a member of the Finance Committee, Senator Pryor, and his diligent work that it passed. So I am very happy that the taxpayer bill of…

I appreciate very much the efforts of my colleague. When this matter was first introduced in August 1992, Senator Graham was a steadfast supporter of this legislation. He indicated that I have been a good advocate of this legislation. I…

I would only say in addition to what my friend from Nevada said, we, we believe, are not only protecting the rights of the people of the State of Nevada, but there are going to be tens of thousands of tons of nuclear waste transported on…

I say to my friend from Alaska, it appears to me that we are criticizing the wrong people here. If, in fact, there is such an urge to go forward with this legislation, and much other legislation, it would seem to me it would be the right…

I respectfully say to my friend, the majority leader, that I disagree that S. 1936 is the most important environmental issue facing this Congress. I say, respectfully, to my friend that if the majority feels this is the most important…

I say, respectfully, to the majority leader, with whom I served in the House in a leadership position there and now in a leadership position here, that we know you have the right to bring this up. But, also, I, the Senator from Nevada, did…

The operating cost for on-site dry cask storage amounts to about $1 million per year per site. It is $6 million to establish it and, after that, $1 million per year.

Absolutely none. There has been no evidence produced at hearings that this is adequate. There have been no scientific documents submitted. Everything is quite to the contrary. But I do not know anyone in the scientific community that would…

Absolutely true. During the time that the Senator was asking the question, I wanted to make sure that I was confident that the answer was correct. So I leaned over my shoulder to my colleague from Nevada, and he nodded that I was…

Yes, that is absolutely the case. I say to my friend from North Dakota, I have only been to North Dakota once in my life. That was to meet with a number of people in North Dakota. Some of the people with whom I met were people from the…

This is interesting. Each site--and we have a little over 100 nuclear waste generating facilities in the United States--it would cost about $6 million per site to store nuclear waste where it now exists.

Yes, because they have asked the Federal Government to take over the project. Up to this time, much of the expense has been borne by ratepayers at so much per kilowatt per electricity into this fund. The fund has been used to repair the…

that is a debatable issue. There are some who say that the ratepayers should continue and it should not be appropriated money of the United States. But there are others who are saying we are going to sue you, the Federal Government…

Whichever New York Senator has the floor. It appears this is a bipartisan statement. I want to make sure it is a nonregional statement, and covers the whole United States. We in Nevada have utilities extremely hindered by the result of…

The Nuclear Waste Technical Reviewing Board clearly stated: The board sees no compelling technical or safety reason to move spent fuel to a centralized storage facility for the next few years. This a statement they just made: The methods…