Eddie Bernice Johnson

I am worried about being penny wise and pound foolish.

We have got to go forward. It is clear that we need to establish some repositories.

It appears that whatever happened with Yucca Mountain, the capacity is just about filled.

What we need is consensus from the start. In the most powerful democracy in the world, it is the only way this will work.

It was always controversial and unfair, and in the end, we are left frustrated and angry with an ever-growing waste stockpile and still without a solution.

After five decades of commercial nuclear power in the United States, we still have not arrived at a comprehensive and equitable plan for permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

Given the diversity of backgrounds and expertise on the Commission, arriving at a consensus on something as potentially contentious as our nuclear future is not easy.

I am just as concerned about overruns as everyone else, but I wanted to share that some years ago when I was having to wear glasses for nearsightedness...

I look forward to hearing from each of you today.

I look forward to hearing more about NASA's offset proposal in today's hearing.

I believe that this Committee is going to need regular updates on this project from NASA so that we can have confidence that its milestones are being met.

I look forward to hearing about the re-plan from our witnesses as well as about any challenges and risks that still exist.

It is very important that NASA ensure that this project proceeds without further turmoil.

As he has noted, we had to absorb the 5 percent cut in our budget this year, as did other committees.

And I would just like to add that the 5 percent cut combined with uncertainty about the potential additional cuts...

The primary justification to invest in the commercial crew initiative is that the nation needs this strategic capability to maintain our nation's leadership in human spaceflight.

It seems to me that we are running on a course of eventually the taxpayer subsidizing a monopoly

I think it is very important that commercial crew exists as part of an enabling system to provide low-cost transportation to ISS, affordable transportation, in such a manner that there is funding left over in NASA's budget so that we can…

I have to take the Deputy Administrator at her word, as NASA still has not provided Congress with the basis for its commercial crew budget requests since the initiative was first announced almost two years ago.

I cannot let my enthusiasm for entrepreneurial innovation override my responsibility as a Member of Congress to take a clearheaded look at the issues associated with NASA's commercial crew proposal.

I have got to be convinced that the benefits of NASA's commercial crew proposal outweigh the costs before I can be comfortable in supporting it.

I've got to be convinced that the benefits of NASA's commercial crew proposal outweigh the costs before I can be comfortable supporting it.

The creation of the national infrastructure development bank to leverage private and public capital to finance nationally and regionally significant infrastructure projects is a proposal that I have been highly supportive of for many years.

I am greatly disappointed to see that the current majority of this subcommittee seems to have already reached a conclusion on this topic by entitling the hearing, 'National Infrastructure Bank: More Bureaucracy and More Red Tape.'

I have been very, very impressed. First, I've seen a very clean city that seems to have all of the ingredients...