I appreciate the discussion that has taken place, particularly with respect to e-mail, that I think is confounding to even experts.

a vast majority of our cyber vulnerability would disappear if we could simply get up to basic public, regular, ordinary levels of patching and security

I would like to echo your message to the administration that this is--it is getting a little late to come before a Congressional Committee and not have a point of view and not have a proposal.

Do we know anything about it?

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

I think we are all coming to the conclusion that they don't believe we are serious.

I understand--and correct me if I'm incorrect--that the Chinese were not aware beforehand of this attack.

I think the only way that we will begin to be viewed more seriously is if we start moving legislation here in this Congress that has more teeth.

For the record, Mr. Chairman, I would like to follow the Corker rule.

I think another good closing word is a phrase that Ms. Savitz used, that we are continually asking our oceans to take one for the team.

If there are no adequate technologies or no safe chemicals to respond to spills, then drilling simply should not be allowed.

But the Government ought to have some oversight.

And the reason that that acute toxicity is not showing up in your field studies is because the concentration that you are testing at is below the level that would cause it, or is it because the creatures you are testing are fundamentally…

And you are comfortable that that is a viable indicator?

But would you expect to yet? I mean, is this even the feeding season for some of the species?

I think the notion that these are uncharted waters, we need to make sure that we apply adequate science to it.

I can't think of another circumstance in which a regulatory agency approved something for use without actually coming to a formal decision that it is safe to be used and without any process other than that the manufacturer provides some…

But what a lay person would consider to be an approval, that this particular chemical is safe for use in these circumstances, never anywhere in this process that I can see actually gets done.