Under the law, it is our job to get the waste and to take care of it.

The issue of the storage of nuclear waste is vital to maintaining and expanding affordable nuclear power in the United States.

We need to break the stalemate.

We hope that that bill can be introduced within the next 2 or 3 weeks.

I believe Yucca Mountain could be a key bridge to allowing nuclear energy to be a very viable part of America's energy mix.

yesterday, Vice President Biden and other Obama administration officials hosted presidents and leaders from colleges and universities at the White House. Officials promoted this event as an opportunity, they said, to highlight the…

I rise to speak on the nomination of Sara Aviel to be the Alternate Executive Director to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Had the Senate conducted a recorded vote, I would have voted against Ms. Aviel's…

I would like to follow up on the wonderful comments made by the minority leader. Specifically, I want to talk about the health care law and the ways that taxpayer dollars are now being wasted and spent in what appears to be a propaganda…

Indian veterans deserve our gratitude, our respect and full access to the services afforded to all other veterans.

Native Americans have long played a very important role in protecting and preserving our freedoms.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. A Second Opinion

I come to the floor today, as I have week after week since the President's health care law was signed, to talk as a doctor, someone who has taken care of patients all around Wyoming, someone who has run the Wyoming health fairs, giving…

That policy has led to unprecedented Tribal participation in decisions that affect the future of Indian communities.

the question gets down to the Administration repeatedly in 2009, 2010 and you're part of the Administration, said that Congress had to pass a cap and trade bill so that the EPA wouldn't have to issue regulations to reduce carbon emissions.

If nothing else, the Cobell litigation and many of these Tribal trust mismanagement cases illustrate an important point.

unemployment causes a 50 to 100 percent increase in the death rate for older male workers.

One of the goals here is to keep America competitive in the global clean energy economy.

how are we going to be able to compete economically with China?

the additional expense of energy in the United States under additional rules and regulations.

So, half of them are settled, essentially.

unemployment leads to a higher probability of divorce.

While much of the history has not been good, the relationship, I believe, and under your leadership, has certainly improved.

So your goal is if you would put this on top of all the excessive regulations and we can use whether the phrase excessive is the right or wrong one. I believe it is the right one.

The 100 of the 300, one-third.

I would tell my colleague and friend from Texas, who is a wonderful student of this as well, this health care law is bad for patients, it is bad for providers--the doctors and nurses who take care of those patients--and it is terrible for…