I think it was mentioned here, House Resolution 4072, that we try to work forward with the ideas that you may have here.

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We have a bad habit, to be very frank, with in the Senate... we always need to respond to some incident.

We need to proceed carefully, safely, and make sure local communities are fully prepared and engaged.

Congress must make every effort to allow North Slope Borough and other organizations to have a seat at the table.

Our concern and my concern specifically is sustainability, of being able to have that access to Deputy Secretary levels

I guess this year was kind of the beginning of what's ahead of us in the Arctic.

We believe that tankers are riskier than pipelines.

A millions of dollars question.

I have pending legislation that makes that permanent, and I want to just see if that's where you were headed

I think, that the work by being up there, the activity between you, the local community, as well as industry, well, because of the Coast Guard's presence I think nine lives you were able to identify that you had saved because of that…

I think that's important for the North Slope Borough and the communities of the North Slope to have access to high-level people that make management decisions about what's happening in the OCS.

As you know, exploration is just a piece of the puzzle, and that's an important piece because we have to figure out what's there and how to manage it in that process.

I have to be frank with you. I think my colleagues back in Washington think I'm going to move the whole committee to Alaska because we have had so many hearings here.

I will put that on the House in Congress, who didn't fund it, as the Senate wanted to do, in that 1 year.

If I'm here or someone is here talking about how we are doing on development, that we will have a great story to tell.

We like good news like that. I bet Shell likes good news like that.

This is a critical moment that is going to define the Coast Guard's presence in the Arctic.

You need to be at the table.

it's not a question of if we're drilling, it's how we do it right.

And that satellite gap, how will you handle that, or do you think it's minimal to a point where you can still feel comfortable with what information is going to be flowing, especially in the Arctic?