Sheldon Whitehouse

Do you both commit that you will put your attention to those questions as members of the Commission?

I think it is very important that the NRC be active in making sure that the operators of these plants are energetically participating in the safety.

I think the question, to use your words, should be thinking ahead and starting early, is really at the crux of this

To reduce carbon pollution--particularly, to meet the targets outlined in the President's Climate Action Plan--we must explore all potential options and technologies for zero-carbon power.

I think there is enormous promise in those, particularly in ones that can burn through our existing nuclear waste.

The NRC has an important role to play in the implementation of advanced nuclear technologies by promptly reviewing new reactor designs.

There is a lot that can be done in this area, it seems to me.

I hope that this effort will get some added momentum.

It causes me some real concern about whether that voluntary process is actually working.

As a parent, I appreciate how well behaved they have been through what must be a really tedious time for them.

I can remember Ms. Espinel coming here some time ago to talk about the progress that she intended to make on dealing with the criminal activity that steals American intellectual property.

There are ways in which these companies could go to court and try to knock this stuff down.

A majority of small businesses support the EPA regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants.

I think we need to establish policies in this Country that serve the people of this Country.

Inaction on climate change is not an option for Florida.

There are huge benefits, net benefits if you look at both sides of the ledger.

Climate change and extreme weather are an urgent problem that can disrupt the economy and harm small businesses.

There is not an argument in South Florida that climate change is real, that the costs are out of scale and that we need to move forward.

The idea is to spend them smartly, to understand what the future looks like and build accordingly.

What I can't have is to have a dialog in which Wyoming gets its concerns ventilated but has no interest whatsoever in what is happening in Rhode Island.

I contend that the costs on our side of the ledger actually outweigh the costs of the other side of the ledger in pure economic value by a lot.

If you are an accountant, and you are doing the books for a family or for a business, you have to look at two sides of the ledger.

I think that EPA has actually tried to look at both sides of the ledger, looked at costs, and looked at benefits.

If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billionaire money to bombard our politics.

I believe that a billion dollars of the revenues of the State of Wyoming come into its coffers from its fossil fuel industry.