Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think it is a tragedy that we are losing some of our nuclear facilities to an economic problem, that there is no payment for their carbon free power."

"It should remain, I think, a very high priority goal of this committee and this process to continue to point toward ways to reuse spent nuclear fuel."

"The approval process at NRC is an obstacle course that is designed for a particular type of technology but is not well suited to technologies that are not that technology."

"It didn't use to be that way; this used to be a Committee where Republicans and Democrats worked together on environmental issues."