[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8635]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             YUCCA MOUNTAIN

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the American people have lost more than $15 
billion to cronyism. Pennsylvanians alone have lost $1.4 billion.
  Right now, in southern Nevada, there is an expensive hole in the 
ground where there should be a nuclear waste repository. We should be 
storing dangerous nuclear waste at a single secure and geologically 
sound location. Instead, much of it sits aboveground at dozens of sites 
scattered across the United States.
  When President Obama appointed Harry Reid's aide, Gregory Jaczko, as 
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman, he shut down Yucca Mountain 
against the express wishes of Congress. Jaczko even tried to stop the 
application process, defying a court order to continue certifying the 
safety of the facility.
  Yesterday, this House overwhelmingly voted to give the NRC an 
additional $10 million to do its job. No more excuses. Do the work so 
that we know whether Yucca Mountain is safe.

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