Political Quotes

“to review, the President of the United States rightly asked for $250 million for GNEP to help us stand the nuclear industry back up in this country. Decades after Three Mile Island, we need energy independence. The committee did not have enough money, so we appropriated $150 million at the subcommittee level. At the full committee, we accepted an amendment to reduce it to $120 million, and now they are wanting to cut it further. France understands, as an environmentally sensitive country, that in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, you have to use nuclear. Seventy percent of their electricity is generated from nuclear power in France. They do not get it in Massachusetts, apparently. The gentleman from Massachusetts has fought nuclear in every capacity, every time it has come to the floor the entire 12 years that I have been here. That is what this is really about. If his amendment stands, it would leave spent nuclear fuel at reactor sites in Massachusetts at five places: at Pilgrim 1; Yankee-Rowe; research reactors at MIT; the University of Massachusetts; and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Defeat the Markey amendment.”