I do hope, without getting into a long discussion about this, that you will commit to trying to meet these statutory deadlines.

Many of us across the political spectrum have urged reconsideration of this decision.

There is one major gap, as you know, and you and I talked about it. It does not apply to independent agencies.

I think we need right now to focus on that issue.

It's critical for our energy security, certainly to have enriched uranium for our power plants.

We want to be sure it's going to be done in an environmentally safe way.

We have legislation... to close that gap, to give the President the authority to do what he says he wants to do.

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