[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 20, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H10372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             MOTHER NATURE IS WARNING US--WE SHOULD LISTEN

  (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, ``Shake Rattle and Roll'' may be the words 
of a famous rock and roll tune, but it is also Mother Nature pointing 
her finger and writing on the wall. Because less than just 1 week ago 
last Saturday, Mother Nature sent a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rolling 
through the western United States. Its epicenter was just about 100 
miles east of Los Angeles, but this powerful quake made its way quickly 
to Las Vegas, derailing a train, and passing through and over Yucca 
Mountain, the proposed site to bury the Nation's most deadly toxic 
substance, nuclear waste.
  Mr. Speaker, this quake shook Las Vegas with a 5.0- plus magnitude by 
the time it reached Las Vegas, and it was felt 100 miles away from the 
earthquake's epicenter. Mother Nature is pointing her finger at this 
country urging us to stop the nuclear waste lobbyists from sticking the 
deadliest wastes known to man into one of man's most seismically active 
areas of the country.
  Mr. Speaker, this latest earthquake is yet another sign that Yucca 
Mountain is not the right place to store nuclear waste. Let us tell 
Mother Nature that we have heard her loud and clear. Let us stop the 
Yucca Mountain project. Mother knows best.

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