I look forward, again, to working with you and the Committee as to those issues...
People don't go into these jobs and say, 'Geez, you know, if the union doesn't do this, I'm not going to keep the public safe.'
I want to make sure that you have had an opportunity to at least review that.
That is why I have asked the President to immediately reconsider the six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling.
But what about instituting some minimum training standards?
That it took so long to implement a technique we still are not sure will be the final solution is certainly unconscionable.
the concern here is there is a shortage of quick, efficient, fair mechanisms to pay the claims.
These new figures demonstrate that this spill can now be as much as 3 times larger than the Exxon Valdez accident.
I think will be helpful and would hope that this Committee would consider.
We should be anything but satisfied.
We cannot allow this to be repeated to those people in the Gulf of Mexico, to those families that you represent.
That it has taken more than a month to get an accurate assessment of the amount of oil spilled is emblematic of the dysfunctional relationsh...
There is not a shortage of avenues to pursue damages.
But how are we defining that pause? Because if it is a moratoria, a moratoria that is brought about because of a decision made by the admini...
I am hoping that we will have a second round here. But I would ask you then, as you are looking to--because it sounds that you are clear tha...
What I am asking today is for a greater certainty as to that Alaska status.
We obviously need to fix this.
So, are you differentiating between deepwater and shallow-water exploration?
