Patty Murray actually said...

"We have to clean up this waste. It has to go somewhere and we cannot just unilaterally take one site out of the equation."

"If we do not pay attention to those, if we do not meet the milestones and the legal obligations, the disaster that will hit this country is much, much larger than the cost that we have today."

"Three times in there you say that Yucca Mountain is 'not a workable option for nuclear waste disposal.' But what seems to be missing is the why."

"We believe that we can handle that."