Lamar Alexander actually said...

I believe that anyone who is very fervently for nuclear power should be for this type of global warming legislation.

So my question will be why not have a clean energy standard or a base-load standard that includes nuclear?

The subsidy costs for nuclear to build 20 percent of our electricity from carbon-free would be about $17.5 billion over 10 years.

He said what we believe, that it is safe, that we have ways to deal with the waste, and he wants to get it going.