Honorable John Ensign
United States Representative, Nevada, Republican
Representative Ensign, of the First District of Nevada, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. He was a practicing veterinarian from 1987 to 1993. He serves on the Resources Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. The following is from the House floor debate of October 29, 1997, on H.R. 1270, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997.I just want to say first of all, on the issue of urgency, a 1989 MRS [Monitored Retrievable Storage] Commission review found no safety advantage to centralizing the storage of spent fuel, taking it from all of these sites…
