[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[House]
[Pages H1343-H1344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     DEADLY NUCLEAR WASTE SHOULD NOT BE SHIPPED THROUGHOUT AMERICA

  (Ms. BERKLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BERKLEY. Mr. Speaker, in the near future, the House will vote on

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House Joint Resolution 87 to determine if we are going to ship deadly, 
high-level nuclear waste through America's cities and towns, through 
our neighborhoods, and past our schools, hospitals and houses of 
worship. If you vote for this resolution, that is what you will be 
doing, sending over 100,000 massive shipments of highly radioactive 
waste through the communities you represent, shipments that would be 
rolling on our roads and our rails every day for the next 30 years.
  A single accident would threaten the health of thousands, cost 
billions to clean up, and forever ruin property values. If you do not 
think this can happen and will, think again. Just follow the headlines 
of transportation disasters we see almost weekly. Someday, instead of 
gasoline or chemicals, the disasters will involve nuclear waste. Could 
you look at your constituents and their children and look them in the 
eye and tell them you voted for a resolution that allowed a massive 
catastrophe to ruin their lives?
  Vote ``no'' on House Joint Resolution 87 for the sake of your 
families, the sake of your constituents.

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