One of my frustrations with the Department and, frankly, with the Bottom-Up Review is that there are longstanding proble...
And there are five that are currently being tested. None have been fully implemented at this point.
Thank you, Chair Cantwell, and thank you, most importantly, for holding this hearing today on, without a doubt, the wors...
So it's really shocking to think that, in the last 20 years, we haven't developed either the methods or the technology a...
I just don't sense an element of urgency in this process.
I want to give you another example of an area that this Committee identified first in June 2008, again in 2009, and agai...
I want to see specific action in that area as well.
I would strongly encourage you and the Secretary to put your concerns in writing to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Christ...
Yes, thank you. Mr. Helton, did NOAA have any contingency plans in place with respect to a response to an oil spill in t...
It is a terrible oversight that we wouldn't have had all this tested in the interim in response to the plan.
It's regrettable. I mean, someone is obviously making decisions that aren't in the best interests of fulfilling, I think...
The Coast Guard should be making that decision, in the final analysis, based on what's in the best interest of the Natio...
It is remarkable that in 20 years since Exxon Valdez that we have not been able to put certain technologies or carry out...
We've been told for months now that all available assets have been brought to bear on this crisis. Is that true?
Well, at one point prior to our last hearing there was an article in the paper that somebody from NOAA was even dismissi...
In hindsight, we can look back and see, without a doubt, that the industry and the Nation were simply unprepared for a d...
It's kind of like working behind a guy who's hanging drywall, but you're handing him a sledgehammer.
It just seems we must move heaven and earth, literally, to get this done in a way that is commiserate with the level of ...
