[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 23 (Tuesday, February 9, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H641]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     IMPORTANCE OF THE MOX FACILITY

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, today in the President's 
budget proposal, sadly, the President terminated funding to the Mixed 
Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX) at the Savannah River site. I am 
disappointed the President has not acknowledged how crucial MOX is to 
environmental cleanup and promoting nonproliferation.
  Support for MOX is bipartisan, as shown by former New Mexico Governor 
and Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, along with former Senator 
Richard Lugar. Both are experts who advocate the completion of the 
facility. Today, MOX is 70 percent completed, and there is no viable 
alternative for eliminating plutonium. What is more, closing MOX would 
make South Carolina and Georgia a permanent repository for nuclear 
waste.
  MOX is also critical to upholding our nonproliferation agreement with 
the Russian Federation.
  I am grateful for the leadership of Governor Nikki Haley along with 
Attorney General Alan Wilson, who have already filed a lawsuit against 
the Department of Energy to enforce the law for South Carolina's 
agreement with the Federal Government.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and may the President, by his 
actions, never forget September the 11th in the global war on 
terrorism.
  Thank you, Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill, for eliminating Osama bin Laden.

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