I support Yucca Mountain as a final repository. So there is no daylight between Chairman Shimkus and myself on that.

I will say it is refreshing, Mr. Chairman, to hear people say that it is a policy question for the Congress to address.

I am not asking for the Obama position, I am just asking generally, if you are open to an interim storage proposal.

I don't know why we wouldn't pass the bill to let the market operate and let people choose. What is wrong with that?

As I understand it, if you have, under current law or old law, 50 employees or less, you don't have all the mandates and you basically set your insurance... based on what you can afford.

I would like to see them helped in some way, if at all possible.

Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman. Mr. Chairman, if you look up here at the podium right behind me on the Republican side, what do you see? Carved into the balustrade is the word ``liberty.'' If you look on the Democratic side, what do…

Mr. Chairman, let's come together. Let's vote for something that we can all be proud of so that we can tell the parents of children with autism that there is hope and there is a future. Vote ``yes.'' Please vote ``yes.''

Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the Member from Texas for that generous introduction. Mr. Speaker, 4 years ago, I went to then-Majority Leader Eric Cantor and committee chairman Fred Upton and asked permission to create a task force, a…

I just think we have to be very careful that we don't do something in the short term which, while it may benefit certain actors in the United States, private industry, in particular in the oil industry, that we, not as my colleague from…

I think that we can slow this process down.