But--thank you for the answer, but you have just described the FAA, OMB, DOT, all agencies that would have to take reasonably effective and expeditious action in order to get something in place here.

I just--when we're done with this issue, Ms. Gilligan, I don't think we will have altered the circumstances that allowed that to exist.

What I don't quite understand is, when we finish this whole process, nothing will have changed with respect to the circumstances that existed in that cockpit with respect to fatigue.

This is not some issue without substantial consequence.

the fatigue rules in the U.S. do not comply with the ICAO standards.

The issue of pilot fatigue is not new.

The issue of pilot fatigue is serious and merits attention.

Pilot fatigue has consistently been an issue with the NTSB and the FAA.

the issue of energy security will almost certainly require us to pursue the production of new energy from virtually every source.

My understanding is that about 2 percent of the volume of oil released into U.S. waters comes from spills.

The issue of environmental stewardship is about a lot of things. It's about visual line-of-sight issues with respect to drilling. It's about ecosystems and other things.

Because there's no longer a restriction on drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, and, I think, because there's a generally different view about the eastern Gulf...

the bulk of that was not spilled from offshore drilling, the bulk of that was onshore storage.

the technology has advanced in a very significant way.

I think this question of environmental stewardship, and the technical questions that relate to that, vis-a-vis, line-of-sight and 25 miles verses 45 miles, et cetera, are very, very important.

As Senator Dorgan noted, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita moved through oil fields in the Gulf as powerful category-5 storms.

I believe we need to do more to address the challenges of drug smuggling and gang activity in Indian Country.

Taxpayers were the ultimate funder of the liability. That, we cannot permit to happen again.