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How to Write Better Villains: 5 Ways to Get Into the Mind of a Psychopath

1/26/2017

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  By: Guest Column | January 16, 2017

In New York Times bestselling author Peter James’s latest Detective Roy Grace novel, much of the narrative is from the point of view of antagonist Jodie Bentley, a psychopathic Black Widow systematically marrying rich men and killing them in the most sinister of ways.

Here, Peter James lists his top five tips for how to get in the mind of a psychopath to be able to write one effectively:

1. Where to find a psychopath who will talk to you – the importance of meeting your monster.
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Over my years of research for my Roy Grace mystery novels I’ve given many talks in prisons for the charity, The Reading Agency, which encourages literacy in UK prisons, as it gives me the opportunity to meet many different kinds of criminal face to face.

I had been wanting to write about a female “black widow” character for some time, and had been studying past cases, and thinking hard about creating a convincing character.  Three years ago I was talking in a women’s prison and there was a well-spoken middle-aged woman in the audience who was asking particularly smart questions about literature.  She fascinated me, being clearly well educated and I wondered what crime she had committed.  Perhaps she killed someone drunk driving, or something like that, I wondered?

One big perk of my talks is that I get to mingle with the prisoners after and chat to them one-on-one.  I made a beeline for her.  I never ask a prisoner outright what they have done – it’s not proper etiquette!  So as an icebreaker I said, ‘How much longer do you have to serve?’

She replied, in a booming voice, ‘Nine and a half more bloody years – and it’s just not fair!  A woman did exactly what I did, in London, and she’s only got six more years to go.’

‘So, what brought you in here?’  I asked, somewhat startled.

‘I poisoned my mother-in-law, the old bag!’

‘OK,’ I replied, somewhat astonished.  Then she went on.

‘The thing was, she went into hospital to die, so I embezzled her bank account.  Then the bloody woman didn’t die – she came home.  I realized she would find out so I had to poison her.  Then I realized my husband would find out so I had to poison him, too.  And it’s just not fair – this woman in London did exactly what I did and she’s only got six more years!’

As I was being taken back out by a prison officer I said to him, ‘Is this woman for real?’

‘Oh yes sir, he replied.  ‘Her husband was three months on life support and he has permanent brain damage – and she’s just angry about the length of her sentence…’
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I knew at once I had found my character for
Love You Dead!

2. Make your monsters lovable.
If you think about the most endearing – and enduring – characters in the history of literature they are the ones that are not simply portrayed as black and white evil, but with shades of coloring. Think about Dracula – he is a monster but he has huge charisma and charm. Frankenstein’s monster turns to his creator, Dr. Frankenstein and tells him he never wanted to be born. Hannibal Lecter, perhaps the most success monster in all of modern literature, is enormously charming, charismatic, he has style and people find themselves rooting for him, despite knowing just how utterly evil he really is.

3. Avoid stereotypes. A psychopath isn’t always a man in black in a dark alley with a sharp knife.
It may be a surprise to some people, but yes, there really are good psychopaths as well as bad ones. Or perhaps, paraphrasing from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, puts it into better perspective: Some psychopaths are less evil than others. He could be a past or a President of the United States? The CEO of a Fortune 100 company? Being a psychopath is the best qualification to get you to the top of a chosen path in life, but the worst to have once you are there: The reason most serial killers get away with it so long is that they are bright and cunning – and often total chameleons, able to blend into society. Ted Bundy, America’s worst to date is a classic example. A good-looking, charismatic former law student, estimated to have killed and raped over 100 young women. But it’s not just a good qualification if you want to be a serial killer, it’s a great one if you want to become a captain of industry or a top politician. The combination of charm, intelligence and utter ruthlessness is potent. The psychopath is capable of saying anything just to get to the top – how many politicians do we all know who’ve said totally opposing things many times during their climb up the greasy pole. But ultimately it is hubris that can be their downfall because their lack of empathy means they fail to read the warning signs. President Richard Nixon is a classic; Idi Amin; Saddam Hussein; Gadhafi. And how many CEOs of major companies, like Bernie Madoff and the late Robert Maxwell?

4. How to come up with a well-developed backstory for your psychopathic character.
Some years ago I spent a day at Broadmoor, the UK’s premier high-security psychiatric hospital. It took me a year before my request was accepted, but it was worthwhile because what I saw and learned there has helped me with so many subsequent characters. The qualification for admission to Broadmoor is, essentially, to be violently criminally insane. I asked the resident chaplain if he felt that there were some people who were born evil, or did something happen in their lives to turn them that way?

He replied that the inmates were divided roughly 50/50 into schizophrenics and psychopaths. Schizophrenia was a chemically treatable mental illness, and provided they took their medication, around 70% of the inmates in this category could eventually go back into the world and live ordinary lives. But for the psychopaths, it was very different.

He explained a psychopath is likely to first present symptoms at around the age of four. The majority is male but there are female ones also – as we will see. The earliest signs are likely to be a lack of empathy and no real sense of a moral code of right or wrong. A boy steals his best friend’s favourite toy – with absolutely zero guilt. He will also from an early age be an accomplished liar – and rarely found out.

The psychopath brought up in a loving, stable family may well go on to become a hugely successful businessman or politician. But the one brought up in a broken home, or a violent, abusive situation, is likely to become dangerously warped. Many serial killers come from such latter backgrounds, as did Adolf Hitler who had a bullying father who would not let him pursue the career as a painter he wanted in life.

5. Talk through any major villain you are creating with a forensic psychiatrist or psychologist.
I was chatting at lunch with former armed serial bank robber, and self-confessed psychopath, Steve Tulley. As a teenager in prison, for his first robbery, he met criminal legend Reggie Kray, and persuaded him to let him be his pupil and teach him everything he knew. At 58, broke, Tulley is living in a bedsit in Brighton and has spent more of his life in jail than free. I asked him what was the largest sum he had ever got away with. He told me it was £50k in a bank job. So what did he do with the money? He replied, excitedly that he’d rented a suite in Brighton’s Metropole Hotel and, in his words, ‘Larged it for six months until it was all gone.”

I asked Steve if he had the chance to live his life over again would he have done it differently? ‘No,’ he replied with a gleam in his eyes. ‘I’d do it all again. It’s the adrenaline, you see!’

From subsequently talking to forensic psychiatrists and psychologists, I’ve learned that this “adrenaline” buzz that Steve talks of goes hand-in-hand, with some criminals, with the ruthless, chaotic, hand-to-mouth existence they lead. One of the most chilling things I ever saw was the police video of Dennis Rader – the BTK Strangler– confessing. When asked why he had bound, tortured and killed – horrifically – his victims he replied, simply and matter-of-factly, ‘It was erotic, I got a buzz from it.”
This guest post is by Peter James. James is the #1 international bestselling author of the Roy Grace thriller series. Before writing full time, James lived in the U.S. for a number of years, producing films including The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes. A TV adaptation of the Roy Grace series is currently in development, with James overseeing all aspects, including scriptwriting. Visit him at peterjames.com and follow him on Twitter @peterjamesuk.
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Brian A. Klems is the editor of this blog, online editor of Writer’s Digest and author of the popular gift book Oh Boy, You’re Having a Girl: A Dad’s Survival Guide to Raising Daughters.
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​*MY TAKE: Excellent advice for us crime writers. I haven't employed #s 1 & 5. I've done my analog and digital research on criminal psychology, but haven't gone to those lengths...yet. Great stuff.*
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Will Rick Perry bring high-level radioactive waste to Texas?

1/24/2017

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By Asher Price - American-Statesman Staff
Posted: 12:00 a.m. Sunday, January 08, 2017

Highlights:
Waste Control Specialists have long sought a high-level radioactive waste storage permit for Texas site.

Waste Control Specialists was once controlled by a top Rick Perry donor.
With Perry as governor, company managed to license and build low-level radioactive waste facility.

As governor, Rick Perry urged the federal government to make Texas the repository for highly radioactive waste from around the nation.

The company that most stood to benefit had an owner who was one of the top donors to Perry’s campaigns.

Now Perry is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be U.S. energy secretary — putting him in prime position to influence who gets permission to build the highly lucrative radioactive waste facility.

Among other things, the U.S. Energy Department oversees radioactive waste disposal.

The politically connected Texas company Waste Control Specialists, whose late owner was a stalwart backer of Perry’s, wants to develop a facility in West Texas’ remote Andrews County that could store spent fuel from the nation’s nuclear power plants.

Waste Control Specialists is currently the only company vying for the permit, though a competitor from New Mexico has announced its intention to seek permission for such a project.

The move by Waste Control Specialists is an effort to fill a yawning gap in the centralized storage of the radioactive waste after the scuttling of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a dumping ground.

For decades the federal government had collected billions of dollars from utilities, including $700 million from Texas utilities, to pay for disposing the material deep within Nevada’s Yucca Mountain. But in November 2013, after years of quarrels over the Yucca plan, a federal court determined the U.S. government has “no credible plan” to dispose of the high-level waste.

At present, nearly all of the nation’s spent nuclear fuel is stored at the reactor sites where it was generated. All told, there is at least 70,000 metric tons of spent fuel stored nationally — enough to cover a football field to a height of approximately 20 feet. Texas’ two nuclear sites house roughly 2,400 tons of spent fuel.

A federal commission declared that the United States should press on, developing at least an interim site in a state that voluntarily takes the material.

Whoever manages to shepherd that site into a reality could be up for an enormous payday, given the money already put into the pot by ratepayers.
Technically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, an independent agency, will decide the fate of Waste Control Specialists’ storage permit application.

But the energy secretary can exert control by setting key policies on radioactive waste handling. In September, for example, current Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that privately owned storage facilities, like the one proposed by Waste Control Specialists, could be a way around the political impasse on nuclear waste.

Dale Klein, a former chairman of the commission and a University of Texas engineering professor, said Perry can exercise some influence over the outcome since money that would be used for the interim storage flows through the Energy Department. The Energy Department also will take title to the waste once it leaves the hands of utilities, essentially making it the client in any long-term storage arrangement.

Bullish on nuclear waste

As governor, Perry was bullish on storing waste in Texas.

In March 2014, Perry unveiled a state environmental agency report — one he had ordered — that determined Texas was a suitable spot for the nuclear waste.

“The citizens of Texas — and every other state currently storing radioactive waste — have been betrayed by their federal government,” Perry wrote in a letter to Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, and then-Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, because a federal solution to long-term storage of the waste doesn’t exist despite billions of dollars paid by utilities to pay for a site.

That solution was meant to be Yucca, the Nevada site once designated to be home to millions of pounds of highly radioactive waste. But at the time of Perry’s writing, Yucca was no longer on the table, after billions of dollars in studies and years of political bickering.

The Trump administration could try to revive the Yucca Mountain plan, especially now that Harry Reid, the longtime Nevada Democratic senator who quashed such a project, has retired from the U.S. Senate.

Among other things, Perry’s Energy Department could decide to reopen the office of radioactive waste management, shuttered by the Obama administration as part of the president’s pledge to thwart Yucca Mountain.

But, in the meantime, Perry could direct utilities to ship spent fuel to Texas.

Perry “is familiar with, has a deep understanding of the issues at play,” Waste Control Specialists spokesman Chuck McDonald said. “From our perspective, from the perspective of the nuclear radioactive waste disposal industry, it’s a benefit to have Rick Perry’s experience at the Department of Energy.”

During Perry’s tenure, and with his signature, Texas passed legislation allowing Waste Control Specialists to license and construct a low-level radioactive waste facility.

“You can’t argue with the facts: Texas addressed an issue when very few others had,” McDonald said.

Among Perry’s top supporters was Harold Simmons, who controlled Waste Control Specialists through publicly traded holding company Valhi.

In the decade leading up to his death in 2013, Simmons contributed at least $1.4 million to Texans for Rick Perry.

In 2011, Simmons’ Contran Corp. gave more than $1 million to Make Us Great Again, the super PAC supporting Perry’s 2012 run for president. That year, Simmons himself gave $100,000 to Americans for Rick Perry.

And in 2012, Simmons and his wife, Annette, gave $26,865,000 to outside groups, all conservative, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics.

Family giving to politicians appears to have fallen off since Simmons’ death, though his wife gave $12,500 to Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign and $25,000 to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s campaign.

Perry spokesman Marc Palazzo said Perry has no ties to Waste Control. The former governor was traveling and unavailable for comment on Friday.

Citing his company’s experienced workforce and community support, Waste Control Specialists President and CEO Rod Baltzer said the company “is a natural fit for a solution to the challenge” of high-level waste storage.

“We have a long history of assisting the (Energy Department) in solving their significant waste management challenges,” he wrote in a blog post Thursday.

Environmental concerns

The handling of radioactive waste has long concerned environmentalists.

Perry is “enamored of this idea of interim storage of high-level radioactive waste,” said Cyrus Reed, conservation director of the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club. “We think it’s better to keep it at nuclear plants until a proper long-term geologic storage site can be decided. Doesn’t make sense to ship it somewhere for 20 or 30 years, then ship it somewhere else. It increases the chances for terrorist attacks or an accident.”

The Waste Control Specialists application is for a 40-year license and 40-year renewal, meaning high-level waste could be stored for as long as 80 years.

“The spent fuel would arrive already sealed in canisters, so the handling would be limited to moving the canisters from transportation to storage casks,” Mark Lombard, director of the division of spent fuel management at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, wrote on an agency blog in April 2016.
Another Texas team eager to make a deal for interim storage of high-level radioactive waste also has ties to Perry.

Austin attorney Bill Jones, Perry’s former general counsel before Perry appointed him to the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents and then the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, has been involved in a years-long effort to land an interim storage facility in Texas.

Jones didn’t reply to requests for comment.

McDonald said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission could give Waste Control Specialists permission to store high-level radioactive waste by 2020 — with the federal government to hold public hearings as part of the process.

“It will be fascinating to watch how things proceed,” said Klein, the commission’s former chairman. “It’s time for the nation to move on and solve this issue and not stick its head in the sand.”

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*MY TAKE: I echo Mr. Klein's comments above and however it looks, political favors/nepotism, somebody wants to take the reins in this issue. Thank you, Texas.*
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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., meets with former Gov. Rick Perry on Capitol Hill, on Wednesday.
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COMMENTARY: Dean Heller and Dina Titus introduce legislation aimed at heading off efforts to revive Yucca Mountain in Nevada

1/24/2017

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Posted January 14, 2017 - 9:02pm
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal
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By Dean Heller and Dina Titus
Special to the Review-Journal


Since 1987, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository has been a thorn in Nevada’s side. Because of bad politics, not sound science, Nevada quickly became the federal government’s No. 1 targeted location to permanently store all of the nation’s nuclear waste.

Since then, Nevadans have been fighting tooth and nail to block this misguided proposal — and we aren’t finished yet.

Instead of honoring Nevada’s persistent scientific and procedural objections to the repository, the federal government has spent decades and wasted billions of dollars to design and permit Yucca Mountain without any notion that Nevada would consent to the project. Although we recognize both the role nuclear power plays in diversifying our nation’s energy portfolio and the need to properly store expired nuclear fuel, we will continue to fight against storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.

Nevadans should not be forced to bear the responsibility of storing harmful nuclear waste on behalf of the entire nation, especially when we do not have any nuclear power plants of our own. With help from a number of bipartisan state and federal officials, including former Sen. Harry Reid, the Nevada congressional delegation has successfully defunded those efforts and highlighted the potential risks Nevadans could face should Washington bureaucrats order Yucca Mountain’s revival. Throughout our tenures in Congress, we have staunchly fought against waste storage at Yucca Mountain and have introduced legislative efforts to stall advocates’ efforts.

It is clear, however, that more needs to be done.

As senior members of Nevada’s delegation, we took steps last week to do just that. Each of us introduced legislation in our respective chambers that would authorize the federal government to construct a nuclear waste repository only if the secretary of energy has secured written consent from the governor of the host state, the affected units of local government, and the affected Indian tribes. Identifying communities willing to be hosts for long-term repositories, rather than forcing it upon states that have outright opposed such a site for decades, is the only viable solution to our nation’s nuclear waste problem.

This legislation is consistent with the consent-based siting initiative focused on identifying feasible waste storage and disposal facilities initiated by the Department of Energy in late 2015. It was also recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, a 15-member, bipartisan group appointed by President Barack Obama and tasked with studying nuclear waste disposal. This open process ensures all Americans have a meaningful voice in the process if their community is being considered for a future nuclear waste repository.

Taxpayer dollars are better spent securing safe and viable alternatives for the long-term storage of nuclear waste in areas that are willing to house it. The incoming administration and congressional Yucca Mountain advocates should focus their efforts on that worthwhile initiative. Failing to do so and continuing the Yucca Mountain drumbeat would simply squander more time and scant federal resources that could be better spent pursuing viable solutions to this important public policy challenge.

Rest assured, expired nuclear waste from commercial plants will not be housed in the Silver State without our consent. We are united in leading the effort to ensure the Yucca Mountain repository does not move forward. Nevada is not a wasteland.
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Dean Heller, a Republican, represents Nevada in the U.S. Senate. Dina Titus, a Democrat, represents Nevada’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House.
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“ALL THAT IS NECESSARY FOR EVIL TO PREVAIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO KEEP SILENT!”

1/13/2017

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At the present time, this 18th or 19th-century adage doesn't have a definitive author, though Edmund Burke's name gets the most attributes, it nicely ties into the theme of this post.
 
In the horror thriller, The Silence of the Lambs, an FBI agent-in-training confides in an incarcerated former psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter to track down another serial killer known as, Buffalo Bill, who skins his victims.

In the psychological thriller, The Bone Collector, a gifted quadriplegic ex-homicide detective, and his young forensic science female partner, comb New York City to track down a serial killer.

In the crime thriller, Seven, two detectives with divergently different personalities, hunt serial killer John Doe, whose M.O. utilizes the seven deadly sins to dispatch his victims.

All of the aforementioned epic battles pit the forces of good against the evil monsters that live among us. This is the territory the Atlanta X-Men Homicide Unit will traverse in my psychological thriller The Profiler, a prequel to Kremlin Tide and Cold Lick, coming this summer.

I believe The Profiler represents a compelling page turner in the manner of those books and films while continuing to create characterizations of redemption, courage, faith, and love alongside suspenseful, race-against-the-clock plots.

In their particular ways, police investigations and biblical ministry mean to penetrate the darkness of men's hearts. The world is full of people in, as the Bible reads "gross darkness", but I write these stories to shed light on that darkness and give us all hope that justice isn’t a mockery. I entertain, I enlighten, I educate, but I also hope to encourage us all to never give up the fight in the battle of right versus wrong, good versus evil. In these times that we live in, that quote rings truer now than it ever has before. I’ll post further developments of The Profiler in the future.
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Reid's retirement could rescue Yucca Mountain plan

1/2/2017

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By Susan Ferrechio (@susanferrechio) • 12/21/16 12:01 AM
Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent The Washington Examiner

The long-stalled plan to open a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada has a strong chance of being revived in a Trump administration, especially now that Harry Reid, the longtime opponent of the project, will no longer lead Democrats in the Senate.


The Trump transition team has already signaled interest in reviving the site, which was legally designated to store the nation's nuclear waste back in 2002 but has languished, unfunded, thanks to opposition from Congress and the White House.


Reid, D-Nev., has been a one-man blockade against the Yucca Mountain waste site for the past 14 years. He cut deals with presidents and Congress to keep funding and licensing for Yucca all but dead. But Reid is retiring and won't be back in January, leaving many to predict Yucca's chances of revival have suddenly surged.

"Certainly with Reid gone, the odds go up," Benjamin Zycher, an energy scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told the
Washington Examiner.

The incoming Trump administration signaled in November that it is interested in reviving Yucca, located 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, as part of a plan to extend the life of U.S. nuclear power plants. Transition officials sent a list of questions to the Department of Energy asking about legal impediments to restarting the Yucca Mountain project and reviving the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, which was closed by the Obama administration.


"With Harry Reid leaving and the new administration coming in, it is likely to get renewed interest," Samuel Brinton, a senior policy analyst specializing in nuclear waste, told the Examiner, "But there are so many things that need to happen to restart Yucca Mountain."

A licensing application is underway, thanks to a 2013 U.S. Court of Appeals order that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must either "approve or reject" Yucca Mountain's application.

Leslie Paige, a spokesman for Citizens against Government Waste, said billions of dollars have been wasted on the stalled project, much of it in payouts to the utilities who successfully sued the government for failing to collect the nuclear waste.

"The Trump administration can get the project going again," Paige told the
Examiner. "They are going to need to reconvene the experts at the Department of Energy who know about Yucca. It's not going to be rapid. They may not be able to finish immediately, but they can certainly reconvene the experts to start the discussion about how to get it up and running."
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Yucca would likely get a boost under the Trump administration because the Department of Energy would no longer act in opposition to the project.

"The license is technically under review, but you don't have an applicant on the other side," Brinton said. "Now there is likely to be a resurgence in interest and that means the Department of Energy will likely step up as an applicant," rather than an opponent.

Congress could also revive the project by allocating money. For years, Reid has helped ensure annual spending bills exclude funding for licensing and development of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste site.

Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., a top member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, backs legislation that would amend the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to provide the land and water rights to build the waste site at Yucca Mountain.


But even with Reid gone, there may still be hurdles in Congress. Nevada's congressional delegation, including Republican Sen. Dean Heller and Reid's successor, Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, also oppose Yucca Mountain.

While Nevada did not vote for Trump, it remains a critical swing state and residents there mostly oppose the Yucca Mountain project, which could create another political hurdle for the Trump administration.

And even if Congress and Trump agree to move forward on the project, experts say it faces many hurdles in the form of environmental and safety studies.

Reid said last month any effort to restart Yucca is "doomed to failure" and would cost billions. He said the equipment needed to dig the five-mile storage hole on the site "has been ground up for junk and sent to China or wherever they send ground-up metal."

But it will be easier to restart the discussion without Reid in the Senate, Paige said.

"One person stood in the way of this for a very long time and that was Senator Harry Reid," she said. "As long as he was in position to block it he was committed to doing that. And he did that."

​MY TAKE: New Year. New administration. New hope for this critical issue. We'll see.


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