[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 10654]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                THE SITUATION AT LOS ALAMOS LABORATORIES

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I, too, was attending the joint committee 
hearing this morning on the situation at the laboratories at Los Alamos 
that Frank Murkowski chaired, along with Richard Shelby.
  I must tell you that it was shocking and angering to watch an 
administration that recognized a problem and failed to do anything 
about it--or very little--and then to ignore a Congress that recognized 
the problem after extensive hearings and which passed legislation last 
year into law; and we have a Secretary of Energy who ignored it and 
openly denied that he would do it. And then for the Secretary not to 
show up this morning at a hearing--I am not sure how we respond to it.
  But I will tell you how the American people ought to respond to it. 
They ought to say: Mr. Secretary, you have failed and you have failed 
us in the security of our country. We ask that we find someone better 
to serve in that capacity.
  That is what the American people ought to be saying. And I hope they 
will.

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