I put more than 4 years into the project, 4 years. At the very last minute, DoD came in and raised an objection.
I am increasingly concerned about the gridlock between 2 objectives that this country absolutely has to address. One of them is national sec...
Have we adequate controls over those who are drilling, presently, or are we waiving the law to allow a more expedited procedure?
I know we'll have a bipartisan effort here in the committee.
My sense is that they aren't being enforced.
We got to play catchup ball in a hurry, with respect to the environmental and safety area, because the regulations that are there have not b...
It is long past time to drain this safety and environmental swamp at the Minerals Management agency.
policies and regulations serve no purpose if the administration doesn't enforce them.
I want to work very closely with you, Mr. Secretary, in going forward with this reform proposal.
I think the central question is, to get the maximum value out of your new enforcement effort, we've got to attack the problem at the outset.
Now, what's happening in the Gulf is obviously an environmental disaster of huge proportions, yet Minerals Management didn't require an asse...
People who are riding on airplanes aren't going to say it's acceptable to have a tire blowing out every 500 takeoffs...
To me--Mr. Chairman, I'd like to put into the record as well this particular study, because it looks, for example, at the number of blowouts...
This sure fits in my view a pattern, a pattern of serious safety and environmental problems at BP.
The culture of this company is that there's been one accident after another.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The agency allowed rigs like Deepwater Horizon to drill with near certainty that blowouts would occur.
Again and again, major safety problems, problems that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in fines being paid by your company, ...
