The thing that comes to mind is the BP oil spill, and I think to all of our amazement how that thing could have blown fo...
Automated valves absolutely improve safety but only in conjunction with a rapid well coordinated response.
We have to do better.
I think the concept of oversight is very important.
Are you all working with the company's operators, people responsible for the lines so that we all come up with a conclus...
Trust, but verify.
We agree with the Administrator that the Federal Government should have authority to regulate these lines.
This hearing will come to order. This is a full and regular meeting of the Commerce Committee.
Certainly PHMSA can and must do more to regulate better regardless of budget.
I just want to thank him again. It's a pleasure to serve with him and an honor.
We did this about a year ago on the same subject up north. Now we have new motivation because of what's happened here in...
Thank you.
I remember, it had to be about 20 years ago in Farmington, we had a horrific explosion, the same type.
Chairman Rockefeller this concludes my prepared remarks.
These pipes, pipelines, crisscross underneath our cities and our countryside. They're everywhere, 2.5 million miles, may...
The explosion in Sissonville, as Chairman Rockefeller has said, was terrible, serious, and dangerous.
Yet somehow we find it acceptable that an industry can use 1960s technology in 2013 to close its valves.
How could that happen? And if that's the case and we have all these lines out there and we're much more dependent now, a...
