[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 38 (Monday, March 30, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H1706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           U.S. SHOULD LEARN HOW TO DISPOSE OF NUCLEAR WASTE

  (Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA. Mr. Speaker, I want to offer my personal welcome to 
the distinguished members of the House of Commons, the Parliament of 
Canada. They are members of the Canadian Parliament Committee on 
International Relations and Trade.
  They have expressed an interest to discuss with our colleagues the 
important issues of nuclear nonproliferation and its impact, not only 
to our Nation, to the region, and to the world for that matter.
  Mr. Speaker, with approximately a $34 billion budget for the 
production and safeguard for our own nuclear arsenal, Mr. Speaker, we 
do not even know what to do with the billions of dollars expended on 
what to do with nuclear waste.
  Why is Nevada made the only State to carry such a tremendous burden? 
We have developed the technology on perfecting the nuclear trigger, Mr. 
Speaker, but we do not even know how to control nuclear waste. What a 
travesty, Mr. Speaker. We need to look a little closer into this 
important issue.

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