[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 23, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H664-H665]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE BEAST, H.R. 45

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, a new category of beast has come to plague 
and menace the American scene. That beast, of course, is H.R. 45, a 
bill that intends to ship 77,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste, the 
most dangerous, toxic substance known to mankind, across this Nation 
into my home State of Nevada.
  I say to my colleagues, your communities will not be spared from 
playing host to this transportation of high-level nuclear waste. In 
fact, if my colleagues vote in favor of H.R. 45, they will have voted 
to endanger the very constituents that they were sent here to protect 
and represent, because a vote for H.R. 45 is a vote to open the 
floodgates to transport nuclear waste from over 100 nuclear reactors 
through their communities and neighborhoods. A vote to support H.R. 45 
makes my colleagues responsible forever for the dire consequences that 
will inevitably occur when a mobile Chernobyl has an accident causing 
untold devastation.
  Protect your districts. Represent your families. Represent your 
constituents. Oppose H.R. 45.

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