Superfund sites need to be cleaned up, there is no question about that. But the cleanup process needs to happen in the most cost effective way possible.

It may be a way to recognize that but you are recognizing a lot more who have not found their way to do anything like that.

Senator Inhofe, you described the Tar Creek Superfund site and their site actions have helped reduce the percentage of local children who had elevated blood lead levels from 35 percent to less than 1 percent.

First, I thank my good friend for yielding. I think we will have several people coming down and talking about this tonight. I want to say something about Senator Sanders from Vermont. I appreciate very much his comments. I think they were…

My concern is with the administrative efficiency of the EPA because I have been here since before that time and it hasn't really improved over the last 16 years.

I have full confidence in the ability of the NRC to handle the decommissioning process.

I am a little concerned about your vote on the expedited transfer of spent fuel.

When I first became chairman, you will remember this well, of the Air and Nuclear Subcommittee in 1997, it is kind of interesting that we had not had an oversight hearing with the NRC in 10 years.

In 2012, the District Court remanded NRC's waste confidence rule. When will the revised rule become final?

The problem is the Administration is internally inconsistent in its energy policy.

This is not one of the questions I was going to ask but as an observation, it would seem to me that the lack of resources and personnel should not be a real strong point as it could have been in the past.

The nuclear power industry provides 20 percent of our total electricity generation, and if the environmental left is successful at shutting down this safe, inexpensive, domestic source of energy, then the American people will suffer for it.