"I am very pleased with the fiscal year 2018 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which highlighted my priorities."
"And also, we have to break this nuclear waste stalemate at some point."
"I strongly believe that Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution to the nuclear waste stalemate."
"The quickest, and probably the least expensive, way for the Federal Government to start to meet its used nuclear fuel obligations is for the Department of Energy to contract with a private storage fac..."
"I am going to go to the floor to make some remarks about Barbara Bush."
"Well, I would say--and now my time is up, and I want to set a good example--but I know that Chairman Shelby and the Vice Chairman Senator Feinstein, and others of us will want to try to at least have ..."
"I think every member of this committee would look forward to working with you to do that on these various projects."
"But what we have done the last 4 years is, in the Congress, we have not paid much attention to the President's budget."
"You have restarted construction of the Chickamauga Lock."
"Well, Mr. James, that might be true, but if you are not spending what you are already collecting, why would you collect more?"
"So if you are not proposing to spend what we are already collecting, why would you propose raising taxes further on waterway users?"