David Hobson: “We will work with you. But I want you to understand that this was part of an amendment we accepted because we do want to…”

as the gentleman from Florida is aware, the budget is very tight this year; and due to the lack of Federal funds, many projects the committee supported in the past did not receive appropriations this year. Because money is tight, locals…

if I might respond, you have got the problem correct and we are sympathetic to the problem because it is an economic development tax revenue situation that they do not seem to want to recognize. We have this both in the waterways there and…

The gentlewoman is correct. Our intention is to waive only the cost-sharing requirements for clean coal technological projects for FutureGen, and the cost-sharing requirements that are intended to operate instead are also on page 20.

I strenuously oppose this approach to the bill. Part of the problem we have is there is no other vehicle where we can do this. This is a very difficult time in our country. We do not have a nuclear repository available in this country to…