Energy and Water

The Government must live up to its responsibility and provide for the eventual safe disposal of commercial spent fuel that is currently stored at these sites.

Cost overruns and schedule slips of the Department of Energy's major construction projects must be addressed.

We must address the environmental impacts of our nuclear weapons complex, to ensure the health and safety of those communities affected.

The last several years have brought repeated and devastating weather events to many areas of the country, testing the ability of local communities to respond, rebuild and recover.

In many areas of science and technology, American researchers arguably remain the best in the world; however, our margin of leadership is neitheras wide nor as clear cut as it has been in the past.

We cannot continue to under-invest in the short term and pay several times over in the long term recovering from damages that could be mitigated with proper front-end investment.

The threat of nuclear terrorism is one of the gravest national security threats we face today, and we must secure stocks of fissile material.

The National Security missions of the NNSA are vital to the interests of our country and not only to the nuclear weapons program but also to the nuclear navy and nuclear nonproliferation.