James Traficant: “I support the rule, and I wanted to commend the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon]. He never ducks tough issues. It…”

“I support the rule, and I wanted to commend the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon]. He never ducks tough issues. It is tough lining up on an issue on the gentleman from Nevada [Mr. Gibbons], but I think he has done one of the greatest jobs in the country. I mean that. But I have two amendments. One says, look, if we are going to spend money, and the bill is trying to buy American products, and I want to thank the gentleman from New York [Mr. Solomon] for helping us buy more American products. He helped me ever since I was a new Member, and I appreciate it. The other amendment has been a little bit of a controversy. This is a controversial bill. But the chairman, the gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Dan Schaefer, and the ranking member, the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Hall, do not duck controversial issues, and I am hoping that there could be some workout here and agreement that would reach the agreement of all of Congress. But Congress must work its will. But the second Traficant amendment, known as No. 3, is very significant. It is very controversial to be transporting and storing spent nuclear fuel and waste, but what is worse is if America would become the dumping ground for nuclear spent fuel around the world. So the Traficant original amendment was designed to say, look, this deals with American spent nuclear fuel and the storage of only American nuclear spent fuel.”