Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, we have got a problem in this country with not making the kind of investment in industry that creates jobs. While Great Britain and France and Japan and Germany go with their industrial leaders around the world and see that they have an opportunity to create job markets, the United States just sits here, not doing anything. Mr. Chairman, Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has made some mistakes. They have been well documented. But it was because she was trying to do something that was right. Industry has understood this. They have come before our Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and have said, ``We are getting business because of this.'' The Advanced Light Water Reactor Program is indeed an example of something right that this country is doing. In the Energy Policy Act of 1992, Congress determined that in order to ensure that nuclear power was maintained as a viable energy option for our Nation as we approached the 21st century that there needed to be a partnership between private industry and the Federal Government.”