the aim of this Committee seems to be to put the industry out of business rather than ensure that the NRC is conducting appropriate oversight.

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

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.

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

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

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

The costs would be enormous, $51 billion in lost economic activity per year which translates to about 224,000 jobs.

They will have a devastating effect if these regulations go into effect on the farmers of rural Oklahoma. It will be our No. 1 concern and No. 1 issue.

The cost of it, and this comes from Wharton School, it comes from MIT, it comes from Charles Rivers Associates, is between $300 billion and $400 billion a year. That would be the largest tax increase in history.

I have to say that I know Oklahoma's global warming regulations are no friend of farmers.

I think that we could really get to the bottom of a lot of this stuff that is going on as far as influencing our political agenda here in Washington, DC.

We know the American people know that the rule will be expensive, and it is very alarming that we have to do this.