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John Shimkus

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Party
R
State and District
Illinois, District 19
Chamber
House
Last served
Currently in congress

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Congressional Record entries

Entry Title Date
Yucca Mountain May 17, 2012
John Shimkus, R-IL
"Madam Speaker, I've come back to the floor, as I have almost weekly since this Congress, to talk about nuclear waste."
Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Disposal Site May 8, 2012
John Shimkus, R-IL
"Mr. Speaker, before I talk about Yucca Mountain, let me just respond to my colleague from Virginia."
Yucca Mountain April 17, 2012
John Shimkus, R-IL
"Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor again to continue to identify and educate you on the various locations where we store high-level nuclear waste around this country and the various positions that our colleagues in the other Chamber have voted either for or against, in hopes that eventually the public will become well informed and that they will take action through their elected officials to do even what the Blue Ribbon Commission suggested, which is decide and locate a long-term geological storage facility."
Nuclear Waste Repositories March 27, 2012
John Shimkus, R-IL
"Mr. Speaker, it's been a couple of weeks since I've been able to come down to the floor and talk about high-level nuclear waste. As you know, through the past year, I've been coming to the floor. I am chairman of the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee. We have jurisdiction over a lot of different types of waste. One of those is nuclear waste."
Woodlawn Champions March 26, 2012
John Shimkus, R-IL
"Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the Woodlawn High School Cardinals boys' basketball team, winners of the 2012 IHSA Class 1A State Championship."

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