Political Quotes

“I would close by simply emphasizing to my colleagues 5 points. First, when we talk about this radioactive waste as being low level, that is good for public relations purposes but not for health purposes. The radioactive waste that will be buried at Sierra Blanca will be deadly to human beings for longer than all recorded human history. It is extraordinarily lethal and makes this debate all the more important. Number two, the Sierra Blanca site was not chosen because of its suitability but solely because of its vulnerability, its political vulnerability, which is playing out here today. It was not the best site for a storage facility. It was the easiest site, because it is a largely poor, Hispanic area. That is one of the reasons that the Texas State conference of the NAACP this year called this 'environmental racism.' It is one of the reasons that the League of Conservation Voters has spotlighted this as one of the key anti-environmental votes of this Congress. Number three, we do not need this dump.”