See what you did, Chair Landrieu, instantaneously?
we ought to decide, certainly for our purposes too, what we need to do to change the law in that regard.
But it is certainly something that we would want to incorporate into law at some point, to make sure that that flexibili...
we have to do everything we can to extend assistance to you.
that ought to be put into law, which I would tend to agree with.
I cannot put into words my horror at the extent of this tragedy that could change the fundamental makeup of Gulf Coast c...
Dr. Lubchenco had stated that that MMS had underestimated the environmental impacts, had cherry-picked the data to under...
the determination of the size of the spill can make a material difference, in terms of mitigation, could it not?
Well, for example, the use of a containment dome was listed as part of their strategy in the exploration plan for respon...
this process has relegated these two agencies, and in my opinion, to the back bench--an egregious mistake that could hav...
what I find confounding about this entire crisis is the fact that these are, sort of, fundamentals that should have alre...
it's astonishing that these two key agencies, the most knowledgeable, and with the most expertise in a variety of areas,...
Relegating them to the back bench is an egregious mistake that could have helped avert this devastation.
This catastrophe that claimed eleven lives and could devastate an entire ecosystem for decades has been characterized by...
Because I think we need to understand the relationship that exists between the agencies. I know it's not in statute, whi...
Absolutely, the taxpayers should not be on the hook for assuming the financial responsibilities of this clean-up and to ...
But, that is also possible in developing a plan and having a response that's viable, in a worst-case scenario, both in t...
So, I think it is important to submit to the Committee exactly what responses, if any, you received from the Minerals Ma...