Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

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

"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."

"I would urge my colleagues, you know, we met at Senator Markey's request with a delegation that included a gentleman from the Mexican Parliament."