Lamar Alexander actually said...

"So you need for us to act to be able to use those funds."

"I think you have testified that you are doing everything the courts ordered you to do in terms of proceeding towards completing Yucca Mountain, correct?"

"I think your legislation that moves towards a pilot scale storage facility is probably the thing that we could bring on the fastest, 6 to 8 years perhaps."

"The project is not just important to Chattanooga, but to all of eastern Tennessee because of the number of jobs affected."