"Why don't we have a clean energy standard? Why do we leave out, for example, nuclear power, which produces 70 percent of our carbon-free electricity today?"
"the relative cost of building a comparable amount of nuclear and wind would be about the same."
"Maybe what we need is a base-load clean energy standard and a renewable clean energy standard."
"There would be more under building 100 nuclear power plants, a lot more, than there would be under building even 180,000 wind turbines."
"So my question will be why not have a clean energy standard or a base-load standard that includes nuclear?"
"I believe we can electrify half our cars and trucks--I learned that from one of the witnesses here today--during the next 20 years."
"I believe that anyone who is very fervently for nuclear power should be for this type of global warming legislation."
"Thanks, Madam Chairman. Let me welcome Senator Warner, especially, and the entire group of witnesses. I look forward to that."
"We should not, however, as a Congress, make the decision that we will pick the winners and losers."
"For some reason, new nuclear power is not allowed to be included in this legislation in terms of meeting renewable energy standards."
"I think we should incentivize and support a broad diversity of different types of energy in our country."