[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8168]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT OF 1997

  (Mr. ENSIGN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ENSIGN. Madam Speaker, I rise to talk about the nuclear waste 
bill of this year. Almost 80,000 tons of nuclear waste are going to be 
transported on our roads throughout America.
  What most people do not understand is that the private companies that 
will be shipping this waste, if they happen to have a driver who is 
drunk, driving in the middle of the night through, say, St. Louis, 
Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, 
Philadelphia, or Los Angeles, all of those cities this nuclear waste 
will be transported through, if one of the drivers of these rigs 
happens to crash through a house because they were drunk, this nuclear 
waste bill will protect that company from any kind of lawsuit.
  Madam Speaker, this is outrageous. This Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 
1997 needs to go down in flames. It is wrong for America. it protects 
the wrong people. We need to vote against it.

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