Bob Bennett
Bob Bennett
American Republican politician who served as a senator for Utah from 1993 to 2011.
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 September 1933
bad cost far seeing
Everybody's seeing the same cost issues. It's universal. 2006 is going to be as bad as 2005 as far as we can see.
negative personal
It wasn't nasty. There were no negative ads, no personal attacks,
aside behind cannot case deal feelings honor million package personal president resolve strings time
It is time to get all this behind us, to get this behind the American people. The president will put his personal feelings aside about the case and resolve it, if we can do it with honor. But we cannot do it with honor at $2 million and a package deal with strings attached.
form
This is a form of insanity, what's going on here.
reports seriously
The reports of the settlement discussions are seriously inaccurate.
change decision point whether
Of those, their point change was insignificant enough (not) to change our decision as to whether or not they would be admitted.
aware fully
is fully aware of what we're doing and is encouraging me to go forward.
building envelope house jar lobbyists office sam whom
Sam Rayburn, after whom the House office building is named, used to keep a jar on his desk, and when lobbyists would come in to see him, they would deposit the appropriate envelope with cash.
bit challenge question toughest
I don't think there's any question about it. This is going to be our toughest challenge yet that we've had recently. I'm not the least bit pessimistic, but I think we have a struggle.
clear hold longer mountain shipped site situation stored support waste
I am making it clear that my support for Yucca Mountain . . . does no longer hold in the situation we find ourselves, ... It makes sense for (nuclear) waste to be stored on site and to be shipped to a reprocessing center.