The taxpayer, the ratepayers were sold a bill of goods.

If we can't put nuclear waste here, we will never put it anywhere else, because we won't pick another site.

We have responsibility to ensure we implement the existing policies to address the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle.

This is no small matter. 35 years ago, Congress enacted the Nuclear Waste Policy Act into law.

Nuclear is a critical component of our Nation's energy system. It also has been vital to our national security powering the nuclear Navy and providing for our common defense.

Nuclear is a critical component of our nation's energy system.

There is a byproduct, and we need a long-term repository for that nuclear waste or it will sit in our home States.

If we follow the policies of Germany, which the Paris Climate Accord was pushing us toward, we would see the average electrical bill for the average American family triple.

We can't adopt all of these policies that drive up the cost of electricity while countries like China do absolutely nothing.

But let me tell you what will lower the carbon emissions for this country. That's nuclear power, because right now in this country 56 percent of our carbon-free emissions come from nuclear power.

Would you all agree, as the Governor of Connecticut recently admitted, that if they want to meet their attainment goals for carbon-free emissions and lower their carbon footprint, they need to keep their nuclear power plants that they were…

Securing our Nation's electric grid infrastructure is vital to our Nation.

Yucca Mountain is the law of the land, and I support the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act.

A national solution to a national problem, and that is Yucca Mountain.

Yucca Mountain is a national solution to a national problem and something we need to support the Secretary on.

Are you going to send every homeowner, every landlord a questionnaire and say, does the house that you own have asbestos siding?

we need this. We need this. And this is something, you know, we don't want to stifle innovation or anything, but we do need our privacy protected.

I think it is telling when former U.N. climate official Ottmar Edenhofer said regarding international climate policy, ``We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy.'' Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to defeat this…

Clearly the Federal Government has aggressively failed to meet this contractual deadline by over 20 years.

Tonight, I rise to remember and pay tribute to the late Senator Fritz Hollings, who was a true statesman through and through. As Governor Henry McMaster said on Saturday, learning of Senator Hollings' passing: ``One of South Carolina's…

We have one, a permanent geologic repository in Nevada known as Yucca Mountain.

I urge you to support the President's budget request of $116 million for nuclear waste disposal.

Madam Chairwoman, thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here today.

It is important to note that Lou is strongly supportive of our local veterans.

I am so proud of the work that Lou is doing for our home state.