Lamar Alexander: “We are either going to have to persuade the Senate to move ahead with Yucca Mountain or the House to move ahead with…”

A similar proposal was included in the discussion draft of the Lower Health Care Costs Act, released by Senators Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray.

We don’t believe in canceling part of our history. We wanted our children to understand that the American Republic has never been a perfect union but that its greatness is that it has always struggled to reach noble goals.

I think you've got to take office early in order to stop what's going on.

I made a plea for bipartisan cooperation as my closing speech in the U.S. Senate today.