George Voinovich

The thing is that is not the role I am asking you to make.

You should set the standards for them.

You did not find it out at Davis-Besse. You had somebody there.

I have to tell you something. If I were running a show, those would be the most important people that I would have in my organization.

I am going to visit a couple of facilities and I am going to check up for myself.

If they do it in Europe, you are doing it at Davis-Besse, you ought to have the same kind of thing.

I have to tell you there is a disagreement here. I think you should do it.

But you are doing it at Davis-Besse. You are going to go in there for the next 5 years.

The question I have is this. Why do the Europeans do it?

I do not think my colleagues in the Senate and the House of Representatives understand how negative and how bad that has been for our Agencies.

I want to compliment Senator Jeffords because he, at that time, said that he thought it was a good idea.

If this Congress goes home without passing an Energy bill, we are doing a great disservice to the people of this country.

Thank you very much.

One of the things that I am trying to do with the legislation that we introduced would deal with that problem.

We are going to face challenges in the years ahead because there was that period where we had to manage a very significant decline in resources.

Let me ask you this. How much retirement have you had in the last years? How many new people have you brought in?

My past recollection is that some of the universities where they have some of these reactors at the universities, that they were closing those down.

I feel strongly, and I know my fellow colleagues agree with me that this committee must provide strong oversight.

Simply put, people ought not to go to bed, as I said, worrying about the safety of our nuclear power plants.

The No. 1 issue for the NRC is safety. Period. There is no greater issue.

I have serious concerns about the answers GAO found to these three questions.

I apologize for the delay in starting the hearing today. We had the pleasure of spending 45 minutes with the President of the United States where he did an outstanding job of laying out where we have been and where we are going with our…

I have talked to Ted Stevens about it, and he thinks it is a good idea.

I have been trying to get the folks over here to do the oversight in the Appropriations Committee. And I do not think they do it.

I agree with you. I have said to folks if we do not deal with this deficit and we do not deal with this looming crisis that is coming, there will not be anything for anybody.