Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"I think it is a tremendous threat not just environmentally but also to human health and the commercial health of our fisheries up there."

"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..."

"I have been to China and heard the reports on the facilities that were designed in the United States but are being constructed over there."

"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."