John Spratt: “I recognize the gentleman and yield to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Cooper).”

This bill will authorize the Rural Utilities Service to make loans to rural electric co-ops so that the co-ops, in turn, can make loans to families and small businesses for energy conservation and efficiency measures that meet Federal…

Can we conclude from what you have just said and from what you are seeing that the favorable factors in our economy today may be glimmers of hope, may be harbingers of an economy that is recovering?

Mr. Garrett. I thank the chairman and I thank the witness, Dr. Romer, for being here today.

Let me get something clear. There are a hundred and three operating nuclear reactors, commercial reactors in operation generating spent fuel waste.