Thank god from the capitol police who were there guarding our Majority Whip, because we were sitting ducks in that dugout.

After today, I wonder whether or not I will ever feel safe going to a baseball field with practice like that, because literally if that horrific shooter had chosen, I was in his line of sight he could have shot me as easily as anybody…

Thank you very much. They do a very difficult job and--for our country and I appreciate that so much.

I represent the people of the great Third District of Tennessee. That is Chattanooga and Oak Ridge.

I have engaged in some of those coding opportunities in the schools, particularly in some of our inner-city schools in Chattanooga.

I would like to mention how impressed I was with the emphasis that you placed on school choice.

I strongly support a Department of Labor program that partially compensates workers who contracted serious illnesses from harmful substances and radiation exposure as a direct result of their national security work.

I represent the people of the great Third District of Tennessee.

Thank you. And one further question. Does NEI support the Department of Energy reestablishing a domestic uranium enrichment capacity for national security purposes in the near term and why?

We encourage Congress to restructure the funding and spending mechanisms of the Nuclear Waste Fund.

I believe one of the reasons it is important that we return to regular order is to provide certainty for critical infrastructure projects, such as the Chickamauga Lock.

I am concerned that the fiscal '18 budget does not include full funding for the inland waterway trust fund.

Federal support for the SMR technology is a sound investment in our Nation's future.

the super computing initiative has been so critically important to our country and will remain so.

Chickamauga Lock is a very important project. It is an integral component of the inland waterways system.

The existing lock is an older, antiquated New Deal structure, and it has had some failures.

I want to thank you for your advocacy today, and also, to let everyone here know, the EM mission nationally is so critically important.

We support the establishment of an independent U.S. facility in no less than 10 years.

the uranium processing facility is a one-of-a-kind project that you recently visited at the Y-12 Security Complex.

I am concerned that vital DOE missions to support the national security and economic security of our country are targeted for deep cuts or elimination in the budget proposal.

Tonight I rise to offer a moment of silence. On November 21, while many of us were preparing for the Thanksgiving holiday, tragedy once again struck my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Woodmore Elementary School is a beautiful…

We plan to have that capability on line no later than 2025, giving us 3 years of cushion in between the time that capability comes on line and we expect to run out of the existing supply of lithium.

I want to thank you. You came to Oak Ridge and actually spoke at our ETEC meeting, were very warmly received.

The Government Accounting Office and the Department of Energy's own Inspector General's reviews highlighted a shortage of lithium for use in refurbishing nuclear weapons.

And I thank you. And these changes were made prior to your tenure and prior to my tenure.