the intention of Senator Collins and me to call the Minerals Management Service before our Committee
I certainly agree that too much reliance was put on the blowout preventer here.
Of course, the ominous note here--I appreciate hearing that--is that, as you said quite openly and directly, it could take 3 months.
And as Senator Collins said, my understanding is that increasingly in the Gulf and elsewhere we are using deep-water wells.
The private sector must accept responsibility for this failure in modern engineering.
I appreciate what you are doing now to contain the spill, and particularly, Secretary, what you are doing with Secretary Salazar to come up ...
Surely, this catastrophe should prompt the Administration to reconsider that ill-conceived budget cut.
I think the President was absolutely right last Friday to say this is not about who is responsible for paying.
I appreciate hearing that. And, again, it seems to me that we are experimenting because this is something unprecedented and I think unantici...
I hope that you will take a close look at the special requirements for protection that it seems to me we now have all learned have to apply ...
But isn't it true that--and, Admiral, I welcome you to come in on this--those kinds of drills were not really to deal with a blowout in a de...
I do think that understanding sub-sea intervention capability and having a plan is a model.
I think we will need to look at what type of sub-sea intervention capability is planned or could be available.
I believe the Administration is correct in calling for a halt to the approval of further drilling in deep waters.
It is time for our government to name and publish the companies that are investing in Iran.
It requires a kind of willing suspension of disbelief to think that the State Department has been investigating this question for 12 years w...
In light of the danger posed by the Iranian nuclear threat, we must take every possible economic, political, and diplomatic measure to demon...
We no longer should allow businesses to do both.
