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...
I had the same experience with prisons when I became Governor. We couldn't locate one, and I announced that we only had ...
We need consolidation sites and we need a second repository or more.
This has been very helpful and very, very interesting.
For a long-term repository, I would think that the Federal Government would want the Governor and the State legislature ...
We are going to work together, Mr. Chairman, with you and others to try to break the stalemate, address the issue and be...
In the proposal in the Appropriations bill, of course, any site that is chosen, even as a pilot site, would have to be a...
Do you agree or disagree that if we in the Congress try to move as aggressively as we can to pass a comprehensive piece ...
So our thought with the appropriations bill was, can we take a step or two while we work out the comprehensive piece, or...
As I said in my opening remarks, whether you are for Yucca Mountain or against Yucca Mountain, we need to break the stal...