George Voinovich

I would really like to particularly look at the environmental studies that have to be made to try and make sure that whoever does that has got the gear to get that job done.

The other thing is that a lot of people are not aware that the industry itself is doing a lot more policing.

It is 20 percent of our energy; 70 percent of our clean energy comes from nuclear.

Where are we? And how can we recapture our leadership in this area?

In other words, it is going to take that long for all that process to go through?

Every year, the Department of Energy is sued by the utilities, and they lose the lawsuits because they promised that they were going to find someplace to put the waste instead of putting it in dry storage.

The last thing, I am out of time, but could somebody give me a survey of what is happening internationally in this regard?

I would like to point out, if you are talking about safety, that we went through some really tough hearings back in 2002 because of what happened at Davis-Besse.

Yes, but there were criminal charges filed against people. I think the company was fined millions of dollars, wasn't it?

Many of us have legislation we have introduced to create a vehicle where that money would go and not go in the general fund that would deal with used fuel.

The bottom line is that money was collected from ratepayers and it is about $29 billion; $7.5 billion or whatever has been Yucca Mountain.

I want people to understand that things do happen to people when they don't do what they are supposed to do, and how you try to correct the situation.

I think that momentum is building and the policy environment in the U.S. is shifting toward the growth of nuclear power.

I would like to publicly congratulate Senator Carper on doing an outstanding job as Chairman of this Subcommittee.

The Federal Government spends, on average, $100,571 per employee for salary and benefits.

I was a little bit disappointed at the look at that at the John F. Kennedy School.

the fiscal situation for the Federal Government is something that we will certainly need to be addressing

The Federal Hiring Process Improvement Act, I think, will help agencies and job applicants by eliminating the barriers for applying for Federal employment.

Of all the things that people talk to me about today, they are interested in their job, and they are really worried about where our Federal Government is going in terms of spending.

In other words, if we went the route of, say, Safeway or other companies that are out there that are really getting into this, Proctor and Gamble and so forth, that if we wanted to do an experiment, we would have to change the law in…

Well, it seems to me that if you are looking at the programs, that this cost-benefit should be really looked at.

This type of strategic innovation is exactly what Senator Akaka and I hoped would result when we created the Chief Human Capital Officers Council 8 years ago.

So we can't do that on kind of a pilot basis?

This is the worst recession since the Depression.

I think it is important that we examine the extent to which the Federal Government's work-life policies support our need to recruit and retain highly qualified individuals.