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 conclusion on what's the be...
Trust, but verify.
We agree with the Administrator that the Federal Government should have authority to regulate these lines.
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.
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, maybe more.
The explosion in Sissonville, as Chairman Rockefeller has said, was terrible, serious, and dangerous.
This hearing will come to order. This is a full and regular meeting of the Commerce Committee.
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 the last several da...
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, and I think we're goi...
it's truly informative. But encouraging also to see that everyone is trying to move in the most appropriate manner and taking the public saf...
Let me just say on my behalf in closing, I want to thank Senator Rockefeller for inviting me to be part of this hearing today.
Yet somehow we find it acceptable that an industry can use 1960s technology in 2013 to close its valves.
