It does not make a lot of sense at first blush to have one agency responsible for approving the plan if it is above the ...
I think the regulations should be looked at, and anything that would make this a lower probability event and safer shoul...
But the U.S. Government has a responsibility for protecting the public safety that is more important.
Now, BP did file a Regional Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico, and in that plan, the worst-case scenario that you pre...
The relief well has been held out as the ultimate solution if everything else fails.
I do want to acknowledge that BP and Mr. McKay have fully cooperated with our inquiry, and have not tried to get out of ...
Thank you.
It feels like you are making it up as you go along, that no one really knows what will plug this well.
We will ask what the government and industry could have done differently to avoid this catastrophe.
doesn't it make sense for the Administration to submit a revised budget that fully restores the money cut out of the Coa...
Let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incident is for the families of the 11 workers who lost their lives.
This catastrophe is the first spill to be classified as a Spill of National Significance since that term was first coine...
It seems certainly to me, and I think to most observers, that the decision of a company to invest in Iran is material an...
I have pushed the Chairman, Mary Schapiro, on this issue and did so in a recent Appropriations Subcommittee hearing just...
sanctions have no impact if they are not enforced.
We are at a critical juncture in our efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
I think it's important, for the record, for all of us to reemphasize that this breach was caused by the reduction in qua...
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that, in order to achieve the level of shipbuilding that is set out ...