House Proceeding 07-17-09 on Jul 17th, 2009 :: 0:08:20 to 0:11:45
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Ed Pastor: dollars on a project over the last 20 years and we'll spend billions and billions more for a project that will never happen. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman y arizona rise? mr. grijalvai rise in opposition to this motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes.

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Speech By: Ed Pastor

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Ed Pastor: mr. pastor: with the indulgence of my colleagues, i'll take a few minutes to explain why we're in opposition. mr. speaker, first of all, i want to correct a notion that was given to you by my dear friend from idaho, mr. simpson. for those us, for those of

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Ed Pastor: us who support nuclear energy and want to see it rd, as the ranking member knows, and i know, the speaker allowed that ts form of energy go forward balanced with other

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Ed Pastor: interests that we have in the formation of alternative energy, etc. so the -- we're here with a balance bill today -- balanced bill today because of the speaker's leadership and willingness for us to go forward. whenretary of energy appeared before us, he told us that yucca mountain was off t table.

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Ed Pastor: that the administration wanted a blue ribbon committee to be formed that would not include yucca mountain. well, this bill says that blue ribbon committee will be formed, but yucca mountain will also be considered with any other site being considered.

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Ed Pastor: i agree with my friend from idaho, when the secretary said that $197 million that is used to continue the licensing for yucca mountain was not wanted, i wanted to zero it out. because that way, i would give

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Ed Pastor: my colleague from arizona more floor time by giving more earmarks. but the staff said, no, and they persuaded me. they said, we need the $197 million to be in this account so that we will not breach the

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Ed Pastor: contracts that we have, as my good friend mike simpson told you, because then what we would do, we would probably increase the -- we would increase t probability of billions of dollars being spent in liability, the likelihood the government would lose, you'd

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Ed Pastor: put this government further into deficit, it would povide an opportunity for all of us including my republican colleagues to provide more opportunities for trial lawyers , and so for those two reasons, i said let's keep the197 million to continue the licensing, continue pushing

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Ed Pastor: nuclear energy as a form that we need in this country and that we protect yucca mountain to the extent that we don't create a greater deficit and we don't create a slush fund for