Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"some of it smells to high heaven and was snuck in by lobbyists at midnight and has real--I mean, it is the kind of thing that makes people go out and get mad as hell in the voting booth. And we should..."

"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."

"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."