I was pleased, Director Bromwich, to hear your announcement about setting up an independent investigative unit...

I wonder if you can tell me how we're dealing with American corporations who we hope and expect to comply with the sanctions resolution.

I appreciate the efforts that you have taken and that you have talked about this morning to reform the culture of corruption that has existed within MMS.

Thank you for holding this hearing. I think it is very timely and appreciate both of your being here to testify.

I just want to say that my heart goes out to the people of Louisiana and all of the Gulf States who are directly suffering the consequences of this disastrous spill.

Our goal here is to try and make sure that all of the small businesses that have been affected are getting the help that they need, and that BP and the contractors that it hired who are to blame, who are deemed to be blamed for this spill…

I just would like to request that, when Mr. Hayes provides the BP responsibility document to Senator Menendez, that you make it available to the entire committee.

I think there's been general agreement, from everybody who's spoken, that BP would be liable to pay the costs of cleanup in the spill.

I would echo your remarks and that of Senator Snowe in the importance of small business to the economic recovery in this country.

DOD has a Joint Task Force Haiti that deployed immediately following the earthquake.

It will be transitioning, on June 1, to a very robust DOD program that's focusing on the middle-term priorities.

SBA is clearly going to be critical in helping those small businesses move forward, and we want to see strong leadership at the head of the SBA.

One of the things that I have found troubling... is that there didn't seem to be an emergency plan in place that could address how to deal with the spill once it happened.

I do have a concern about that, which I hope this committee and the Armed Services Committee would be looking into carefully.

Thank you, gentlemen, for being kind enough to appear. I have limited time because I actually have to go preside over the Senate and I can't be late for that.

It promotes stability. It promotes atomic and nuclear stability.

I think it's a signal that the United States is honoring--or, United States and Russia are taking steps to meet their obligations under--I think it's Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

It's really important that we be in there. It's been quite some--I think START expired December the 5th.