Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, as we have been debating the amendments to this energy and water bill, for some of the amendments I have risen in strong support and strong opposition. With all due respect to the gentleman from California, I rise in the staunchest opposition to his amendment. Mr. Chairman, our Nation's nuclear deterrent--and for the people at home watching--is done through the NNSA. The NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration. It is part of the Department of Energy. As part of that key mission and as part of this great bill, we are fully funding and need to continue to fully fund the updates to our weapons programs to keep our nuclear deterrent strong. Currently, the plutonium pits are being done and made at Los Alamos. They do an outstanding job. We are so fortunate that our great friends at the Savannah River reservation--and I have been there, and I have been in this facility that is being built--will work to create new plutonium pits. The world is a dangerous place. Vladimir Putin, with his outrageous, wrong invasion of Ukraine must be stopped. This man has basically threatened to use nuclear weapons. That is intolerable rhetoric. That is intolerable conduct. The strongest way to oppose that is to have a robust nuclear deterrent. Our bill does that. Los Alamos does that. The NNSA does that.…”