our ship to run los alamos national laboratory before that it was the university of california. same with lawrence livermore lab so it's been essentially a privatized at this point. yes fully privatized. you know the lab has no way of processing radioactive liquid ways what's happening with this material well it is being processed be facility is old it's been patched there is workarounds and when there is a problem there are storage tanks slowly build up and then look we says process goes. in a kind of a campaign or batch mode but it's not seismically sound and you know there are safety problems so and has to be something has to be done on a per more permanent basis. the question is what scale how grandiose. should the operating contractor which is supposedly a scientific organization be doing this nitty gritty waste management or whether somebody else should be brought in more competent right well what is the solution for this and go area incompetence i mean if there's been privatized there just this utter lack of regulatory oversight on the facility what what next. will there

sandia national laboratories and los alamos national laboratories employ an additional 18,000 new mexicans as contractors, and the u.s. department of energy's waste isolation power plant in carlsbad employs a thousand march. that's out of two million people. so it's an understatement to say that shutting down the federal government strikes at the heart of my state's economy. between sequestration furloughs, the shutdown and the current impasse over averting a catastrophic default on the nation's debt, hardworking middle-class families across new mexico are the ones that are saddled with uncertainty and hardship. these manufactured crises have very real consequences for these families. since the shutdown began, i have heard time and again from constituents who are paying the price for this reckless debacle. they say they feel like the collateral damage in the ongoing ideological battles in washington, d.c. hardworking civil servants dedicated to their jobs and their country have been sent home without pay while many others have to work through the shutdown without a paycheck. yesterday, i s

and i would love to see that operation, that type of research continued at our national laboratories. who los alamos laboratory in albuquerque, another fine institution, like other national laboratories. there's several across the nation. they do basic research. they do basic development. and my understanding is that the united states, with the in a silt, have about a five-year lead over other countries, over china, who is desperately trying to catch up with us. when we furlough those scientists, when we stopped that process, we set back our scientists for not just the amount of time they're laid off, but the infrastructure. when you develop the technology that they have developed, this is several years of lead time, to get the mirrors, to get the ample fires they get for this commitment. when you tell your suppliers, we're not going to be using you for the next few months, those suppliers go away and it takes years, years to develop the new technology, the new infrastructure for these scientists to be able to purchase these items that are right now available, and as we furlough these scientists and