Yucca hearing set, fulfilling Clinton campaign promise

[wyldwolf]

A Senate committee on Wednesday announced a hearing on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, enabling Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to claim credit for delivering on a campaign promise made to Nevadans over the summer.

The Oct. 31 hearing will be the first Senate airing of the proposed waste repository since Democrats took control this year. The Environment and Public Works Committee that is organizing the session is headed by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., a critic of the proposed repository, 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

The hearing probably will have political undercurrents as well.

Clinton sits on the committee and is expected to take part in the hearing. The senator from New York has sought to position herself as the strongest voice against the project among Democrats running for president in advance of the state's party caucuses in January.

"Senator Clinton has been working actively with the committee to schedule this hearing," said Rory Reid, Clark County commissioner and chairman of Clinton's campaign in Nevada, where the repository project is unpopular. "No other candidate for president has stood as strongly on this issue as Senator Clinton."

On July 20, she said she would push for Senate hearings as a step toward delaying the project until she could be elected president in 2008.

If she wins, Clinton said, "I will not go forward with Yucca Mountain. My administration will not proceed with Yucca Mountain."

It was not clear Wednesday what role if any Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Clinton's perceived main rival in Nevada for the Democratic nomination, would play in the hearing. An Obama campaign aide said he might not be able to attend and ask questions because he is not a member of the Environment Committee.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/10627872.html

[ShortnFiery]

1. Yes, it's coming along nicely ... like a Cinderella Story ... oh how fortuitous for HRC.

:eyes:

[saracat]

2. Is she going to fufill her campaign promises about Iran as well?

Is she going to join her pals Kyl and Lieberman and "get tough"?

[wyldwolf]

6. which promise was that?

[jmp]

3. From 1993 - 2001 ...

This project was not stopped. But the next Clinton administration will stop it. Honest.

[wyldwolf]

8. Despite a GOP Congress, Bill Clinton vetoed a bill that would have accelerated construction

Crazy how some people think a president can wave a magic wand and make Congress fall in line. But unfortunately for your viewpoint, Bill Clinton was an opponent of the Yucca site. John Edwards and Howard Dean were not.

Hillary Clinton voted against a resolution in 2002 that approved the Yucca Mountain location.

[Clark2008]

4. Hmmm.... when will Edwards say "oops, I'm sincerely sorry" for

his Senate vote on this issue?

:silly:

For the record, Sen. John Edwards Edwards voted for the Yucca Mountain plan in 2000 and 2002 because North Carolina has nuclear power plants that want to get rid of the waste...

[Cameron27]

5. Yes he did,

another one of those 'oops' on his record.

[cobalt1999]

7. I support Clinton, but Yucca Mountain is a better solution than anyone else has come up with.

So, I don't support her stance on this issue.