Posted on 10/31/2007 5:45:25 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Edited on 11/01/2007 1:21:55 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
UPDATE:
Correction:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) attended and asked questions Wednesday at an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project. Using an out-of-date release, The Hill incorrectly reported that Clinton missed the hearing. Comments attributed to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), from the same release, were similarly dated and incorrect. We regret the errors.
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) skipped an Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Wednesday that she called for earlier this year.
Clinton’s absence drew a strong rebuke from Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.), ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Clinton, a member of the committee, praised Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) a few weeks ago for scheduling the hearing on the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, a project that many Nevada voters oppose fiercely.
“I applaud Chairman Boxer for scheduling this important hearing, a step that I called for earlier this year,” she said. “I am strongly opposed to Yucca Mountain because there are too many unanswered questions about both the geology of the site and the integrity of the science done to support the decision to store waste there.
“That’s why this hearing is so important. We need answers ... and I will be asking for them on the 31st,” Clinton added. But if Clinton was seeking answers from administration officials, she was not doing it from the committee dais. She was nowhere to be seen at Wednesday’s hearing.
Inhofe did not mince words about Clinton’s absence: “When Sen. Clinton had the opportunity to ask ‘hard questions’ of administration officials about Yucca Mountain, she was missing in action. In fact, Sen. Clinton failed to ask any questions because she was absent from the last two [Environment and Public Works] hearings on Yucca Mountain.
Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), Clinton’s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, however, made sure to weigh in on the hearing. He penned a letter to Boxer dated Oct. 30 stating his opposition to the Yucca project.
Obama is not a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
“I believe that it is no longer a sustainable federal policy for Yucca Mountain to be considered as a permanent repository,” Obama wrote.
Nevada voters are of particular interest to the Democratic hopefuls because the state is scheduled to hold a presidential caucus on Jan. 19.
Clinton’s Senate spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
Big gubm’nt in action.
She’s probably just off doing something pre-presidential.
She was for it before she couldn’t be bothered with it.
There might have been mean men there,asking her questions.
Or maybe the sheen of novelty is beginning to get a little dull....
She is in hiding recovering from SHOCK...Tim Russert didn’t let he get away with lying about the NY driver license question last night.
She voted for the meeting before she voted against it!
“She’s probably just off doing something pre-presidential.”
Most likely she got real busy this morning looking for her file on Tim Russert! Much more important than attending a meeting over anything to do with Navada!
She was out buying lamps.
None of hers saw daylight today.
“Turn the Page” Wasn’t that a key term from her and thrown back in her face by Hussein?
That’s good!!!
Too busy fuming over getting bopped over the head about last nights debate?
BIGGEST PHONY EVER!
Hypocrite. Guess she thinks she is way too important for that.
Music : Night on Bald Mountain : the devil’s nights and days are numbered. The hildabeast goes with him.
It seems no one has heard of LENR and its proven nuclear rad-waste transmutation abilities, why?
“She was out buying lamps.”
What . . . buying lamps? She stole over $100,000 of publicly owned property from the White House when she left . . . there’s gotta’ be a few lamps left over.
They need to get over their petulant resistance. Yucca Flats is going to happen, no mtter how many temper tantrums they throw...so they should start making the best out of the situation.
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