[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 8, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H2168]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




VOTE TODAY TO MOVE HAZARDOUS NUCLEAR WASTE TO A SECURE STORAGE FACILITY

  (Mr. KIRK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KIRK. Mr. Speaker, today the House will vote on the most 
important environmental and homeland defense issue of the year. Spent 
nuclear waste is stored at 131 locations around America: near Long 
Island Sound, in the Tennessee Valley, and on the shores of our 
precious Lake Michigan. These locations are a terrorists' shooting 
gallery of potential targets, and 161 million Americans live within 75 
miles of a temporary nuclear storage site.
  Today we will vote to move this material to a secure storage facility 
where the United States has already tested hundreds of nuclear weapons. 
The protection of the Great Lakes is my number one priority, and moving 
nuclear waste from our shores will protect our people from terrorism 
and environmental threats.

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