Chuck Fleischmann

What worries me, and I am going to be very specific to my congressional district that I am fortunate enough to serve.

We are working on a bipartisan supplemental for the coronavirus.

I just have one further question.

I want to praise and laud you for that. This is AI.

We love them both, but just not as much as Oak Ridge.

I know Exascale computing is a high priority for the Department, as it is for me and this committee.

This project is critical to maintaining U.S. leadership in neutron sciences.

It is going to enable wholly new capabilities to examine the structure and dynamics of materials from polymers to proteins to catalysts.

Something that resounds, I think, on both sides is that our leaders, the House and the Senate and the administration, we need to come up with policies.

FEMA has done an outstanding job in dealing with the disasters.

I went to the border--southwest border about a month ago to see the situation at three land ports of entry.

I support your initiatives, and I thank you for appearing before us today.

There are other states that are looking at long term storage, like our friends in Texas, and we know that but that will be 30-plus years, decades away.

The reality is unfortunately the politics has gotten involved and the politics of Nevada and there is equal blame. At one point in time it was the Republicans and now it is the Democrats.

I think that just speaks great volumes to where we have come in this country.

Yucca needs to go forward. The interim storage options are too burdensome, too costly and that is the site that was chosen, that is the site that was legally funded and the science is sound.

I just want to close by saying thank you again for an outstanding hearing. And again, to reconfirm what I have known and what the American people need to do, that you and your employees are truly outstanding Americans.

We need the uranium processing facility.

This is a mission that we cannot fail on and I am astounded every time I look at what you do.

I know of no other agency that can compete with the NNSA.

I appreciate what you all are doing here today very much.

But perhaps we can help them not only with the funding but to work towards making that maybe a more permanent system.

The Department of Energy is actually engaged in workforce development.

Yucca, to reiterate these sentiments, needs to be done. It has been funded, it has been largely constructed, it is ready to go.

At this time, I yield as much time as she may wish to consume to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Granger), the ranking member on the full Appropriations Committee.