Paul Tonko actually said...

"I am hopeful we can agree that this is a topic worthy of bipartisan examination."

"House Republicans seem unwilling to move past their fixation on Yucca Mountain."

"For the last few decades, the nuclear waste problem has been intractable."

"We have a long-term storage facility and yet we do not. We do not have interim storage facilities or a policy of establishing them, and yet we do."