So there is at least a precedent or a parallel of some sort?
Thank you, Senator Burr.
I want to extend a special thanks to you, as you said, for joining me as an original co-sponsor on this important piece of legislation.
Your enthusiasm's contagious and the history of the Susquehanna region is important and very, very significant.
I'm proud to call you 'Mr. Chairman.'
We will get to the bottom of the story.
It has been recognized that those are simply Band-Aids that will contain some of the oil but probably will not contain all of the oil.
The so-called dynamic kill of the well is essentially killing the well through the insertion of mud.
Congress will have its share of responsibility to make sure that, as we craft the new agency...
this incident in the Gulf Coast I think is another clarion call as to why we need to move forward in that direction.
It was precisely because of concerns related to the Arctic area, in the Beaufort and in the Chukchi Seas, that we ended up concluding that w...
No. The answer is no. I don't. I think that there is additional work that should have been done with respect to blowout prevention mechanism...
Receiving input from them, however, does not mean that they are the ones who are crafting the standard or the regulations.
The reform effort that we have had underway throughout the Department has included MMS from day one.
The President's effort, by bringing together a national commission that will look at all of the facts and bring all these investigations tog...
There is also a collective responsibility here that has to be put right at the feet of BP.
It should be something that gets done.
I can't imagine that we would permit anything to take place, at least I hope not, that might cause a spill something like the ones that we h...
