Honorable Richard (Doc) Hastings
United States Representative, Washington, Republican
Representative Hastings, of the Fourth District of Washington, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. He served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1979 to 1987. He is a member of the Rules Committee. The following is from the House floor debate of October 29, 1997, on H.R. 1270, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997.For more than half a century now our Nation has faced the challenges and reaped the benefits of nuclear science. Our ever-growing understanding of the atom has helped to win both World War II and the Cold War that followed….
