I am increasingly concerned about the gridlock between 2 objectives that this country absolutely has to address. One of ...
I put more than 4 years into the project, 4 years. At the very last minute, DoD came in and raised an objection.
policies and regulations serve no purpose if the administration doesn't enforce them.
I think the central question is, to get the maximum value out of your new enforcement effort, we've got to attack the pr...
I want to work very closely with you, Mr. Secretary, in going forward with this reform proposal.
Now, what's happening in the Gulf is obviously an environmental disaster of huge proportions, yet Minerals Management di...
It is long past time to drain this safety and environmental swamp at the Minerals Management agency.
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 ...
Have we adequate controls over those who are drilling, presently, or are we waiving the law to allow a more expedited pr...
It seems to me there are some pretty significant safety gaps at this agency that need to be corrected as well.
The company always says the same thing after one of these accidents: We're going to toughen up our standards, we're goin...
The culture of this company is that there's been one accident after another.
To me--Mr. Chairman, I'd like to put into the record as well this particular study, because it looks, for example, at th...
I will be very interested in understanding the types of rigorous examination and testing of blowout preventers.
I hope colleagues will take a look at this study, because what this study is all about is sending a message that there r...
People who are riding on airplanes aren't going to say it's acceptable to have a tire blowing out every 500 takeoffs...
