Is the Administration ready?

Lack of readiness or preparation on your part does not constitute a reason that Congress gives up its responsibilities to have oversight.

The law has many problems and so much so that half of it was simply done away with for a year.

The fiscal year 2011 Continuing Resolution was the last time NRC and DOE received funding for the license review.

Together your two agencies have spent, by my calculations, a little bit under $150 million of electricity consumers' money shutting down a license review.

The purpose of that funding was to carry out the purposes of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act.

DOE used that money for the opposite purpose, to shut down the Yucca Mountain program.

I think the delays have been there because the administration, even though they have had a few years to do this, simply is not ready to bring this forward upon the American people.

We will continue to work with VA, with the Administrations, with the families, to make sure that preventable injuries and deaths don't occur.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

If you knew then what you know now about how these things were not followed, the guidelines of the VA were not followed, I am asking where the buck stops.

I am asking you now, you are a doctor, Hippocratic oath. Based upon the question of the Chairman, it is easy enough for you to turn to your left and look Mr. Moreland in the eye or look at the families here who have lost someone, look them…