[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27000]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                       FAILED SCIENTIFIC PROCESS

  (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, well, here we go again. Last week, the 
Department of Energy changed the ground rules once again for judging 
the suitability of Yucca Mountain.
  How convenient for them to change the guidelines after scientists 
began to conclude the natural features of the mountain would not work.
  You cannot change the rules of the game once the game has begun, Mr. 
Speaker. The audacity of the Department of Energy is deplorable. First, 
their own Inspector General cites 9 years of possible collusion of a 
corrupt law firm; then, the GAO warns that the plans the DOE has shown 
to Congress and the Nevadans may not describe the facility the GAO 
would actually build and develop. And now, after changing the 
regulations to suit their science, we, the American people, are 
supposed to trust them?
  The Department of Energy should be ashamed of itself. It is time to 
put the safety of Nevadans and Americans ahead of their own desire to 
win at any cost.

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