RWM's members have left in the past year, alleging that the committee was focusing on public relations at the expense of hard science and wasting time on outlandish options such as firing waste into space.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

Senator Inhofe, Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, held the hearing in response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's exclusion of treaty critics from testifying.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Senators hear how LOST will cripple national security

As things stand now, the Foreign Relations Committee's inaccurate and unbalanced record will be the only public one Senators have to go on.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: LOST runs silent, runs deep