if the statement of the Senator from Tennessee is valid, and I am confident that it is, then the Senator should oppose this legislation, because if he believes that there is potential damage to residents of the State of Tennessee, then…

If they decided to leave it in the cooling ponds, whatever the cost of that would be during that interim period of time for the storage ponds. If they decide to do the right thing, which is probably dry cask storage containment, then it…

during the last several years, in fact, during the entire time I have been in Congress, there has been an explosion of comment about returning matters to the States. This has been evidenced in a number of pieces of legislation we passed…

Would the Senator agree that President Clinton would be better off politically if he had gone along with the majority?

Absolutely right. In preparation for a permanent repository. And that is why I say to my friend from Nevada and everyone else, this is not a Nevada-only issue. We are here espousing what we feel is appropriate to protect the State of…

As to the present state of the law, I ask the Senator, what does it say about whether or not you can locate a permanent repository and a temporary repository in the same State?

And the chief function was to handle the legal questions that came to the State of Nevada.

Based upon the Senator's experience as Governor of the State of Nevada and as its chief legal officer, the Attorney General of the State of Nevada, and based upon other legal experiences, does the Senator from Nevada think it is an…

I do not mean in any way to denigrate pigs. I like pigs. As far as I am concerned, they do not look too bad. But no matter how you dress up a pig, formal clothes or dress, it still looks like a pig. And this legislation, no matter how you…

Among those that are opposing this legislation are the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Clean Water Action, the Students Environmental Action Coalition of the University of Northern Iowa, Eco- Action of Penn State University…

First of all, he is right about nuclear power. It produces a lot of electricity in the United States. But everyone recognizes those days are numbered. The average life expectancy of nuclear power in the United States is 15 years. After…

as we indicated yesterday, this matter is on the floor for one reason and one reason only. That is the nuclear power industry. That is the reason we are here. There is no other reason. The fact of the matter is that the situation here is…

Even if they were, with the standards they have now been able to establish, it would be unsafe to transport them.

I ask my friend another question. Eminent scientists have said S. 104 is bad. You agree?

Can you think of a single environmental organization in the world--well, let us limit it to the United States. Can you think of a single environmental organization, for-profit or nonprofit, that supports this legislation?

Deferring the siting of a storage facility until that time will help to maintain the credibility of the site-suitability decision. That is what was said by the chairman of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, among other things. These…

I ask the Democratic leader, is it not true that last year was the fourth year in a row in which we had a declining deficit, and the first time in a row since before the Civil War?

If we change our course now, Madam President, there is no doubt in my mind that a permanent repository will never be built and all the effort and all the money will just go down the drain as misguided nuclear politics. The work done at…

we need to understand what this debate is all about, and that is how powerful the nuclear lobby is. We acknowledge that it is pretty strong. They have gotten more out of a worthless piece of legislation than I could ever imagine. They…

the $80 billion figure that my friend has brought up is, I suggest, maybe not modern math. It simply does not make sense. If in fact we are talking about saving money, the thing to do would be to leave it where it is. We would save not…

I would also say to my friend, and ask his response to this-- would you agree with the board, the technical review board, that one of the most important things to do, as it relates to nuclear waste, is have public confidence?

I also ask my friend, the Democratic leader, is it not true that inflation and unemployment have been at a 40-year low, and economic growth is at a 40-year high, and we have 300,000 fewer Federal employees than we had 4 years ago?

I am a sponsor of Senate Joint Resolution 18. I am proud to be a sponsor of that resolution. What we have to understand is that the present system must change. It is hard for me to comprehend that since I was first elected to Congress more…

The public believes that escalating cost of elections puts a price tag on our democracy. So why is there this call for campaign finance reform? Let us go over the issues. No. 1, record-breaking spending. As I said, we hear all kinds of…

people continually talk about using Social Security. ``Let's use Social Security until we balance the budget, and then after that we will not use it any more.'' That argument says it all, Mr. President, because, if you use Social Security…