Lamar Alexander actually said...

No policy or process involving nuclear waste can be successful unless it is consent-based along the way.

We have had a stalemate here for about 25 years, as you have said in your report. And we in Congress have caused some of that.

Our sense is that there are things that can be done within existing authority at the Department of Energy to get started on this track.

I had the same experience with prisons when I became Governor. We couldn't locate one, and I announced that we only had one, and we would ha...