Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"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."

"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."

"It can be a managed transition in which the harm from the transition, the upheaval from the transition is dealt with in a responsible way, or it can be an abrupt transition."

"Clearly, there are several dimensions to the political fight that you are caught in the middle of."