At a 50,000-foot level I join my colleagues in wanting an end to mesothelioma, cancer, and other pulmonary diseases precipitated by asbestos.
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It is time to do it again and get the Senate to put it on the President's desk.
at least the President put out a budget, unlike our Democrat majority that punted on the issue of a budget this time.
I am very disappointed that TSA refused to provide a witness for today's hearing.
This is an important hearing, and I am pleased that we are beginning this process on a bipartisan basis.
Thank you for stepping into this and trying to clean up this mess.
Yucca Mountain is the cornerstone of the Nation's nuclear waste disposal and we need to move forward again.
It has been going on a long time, and we are making progress, but we know there is a lot more work to be done.
But, you know, we really don't want our salmon to glow at night and so we need to keep after this.
Nothing brings us, Democrats and Republicans, together faster or stronger than I think this issue.